Outstanding movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2006)

This movie is easily near the top of my list of favorites. Having been through some of it myself, I can tell you this movie is used in US military training as an example of leadership. Until you've sat in a theatre with 350 other people, all in BDUs, who are holding back tears at the end of the movie and who feel, to a man, the importance of the events and people depicted, you have not fully experienced the full effect of this film. If you haven't already done so, I strongly suggest you go out and by General Moore's book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young" and get it straight from the men that were on the ground in the La Drang Valley. This movie is unique in that one of their stated goals was to get it as right as possible and never sacrifice realism for artistic license. If you haven't watched it, rent it. Be warned that it is realistic, and therefore bloody. If you have watched it, read the book, you won't be disappointed.