The Wedding scene and dances are pure gems

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2006)

The wedding scenes and dances are pure gems. As both a disabled Vietnam Veteran and growing up in a New Jersey factory town with many people of Eastern European origins, the scenes were like a return home for me. These people were very patriotic and anti-communist. I was a student at Rutgers New Brunswick, NJ campus when anti-Vietnam War students clashed with the large anti-communist Hungarian population. Some of these people arrived after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. In the first hour the film depicts the the type of people that went to Vietnam, working class and in some cases patriotic.
In the final scene where Axel leads the group in singing "God Bless America" the patriotism of these working class people is reaffirmed in spite of the tragic consequences of their friends service in Vietnam.