An incredibly accurate accounting of the US early involvement in Viet Nam

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2002)

I watched the film, "We Were Soldiers" today and,being a young adult in the 60's I could relate totally with everything that was going on in the political world. I do remember that newscast by Johnson escalating the war -- I also remember that it was never a declared war -- I also remember that this was 1965 and we were to have ten more dreadful years of a political disaster that took the lives of 58,000 brave, young Americans for no reason at all. this film did cover these political facts at the beginning of the movie -- the leaders were aware of what kind of "war" this would be but because they were soldiers, and ordered to do what they did, they did it with courage, honor, and loyalty to their men. This film is a wonderful lesson in history and young people should see it so they will know what happened during those tumultuous years. We were never attacked by Vietnam and had no business there except the business that the politicians thought we had there. Now with our war on Terrorism, we do have business annihilating radical Muslim terrorists because they must assuredly did ATTACK us, as surely as the Japanese did in Pearl Harbor. But Vietnam was another matter, and this film brings this out. Congratulations to the producers of this film, and to Mr. Gibson for bringing us another fine film.