Forget the glamour

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2002)

I am glad to see Hollywood portraying a factual event about Vietnam without all of the glamour and "hoopla". I'm sick of seeing pieces about "peace" and hippies. Men fought in Vietnam because it was their duty. That fact is often lost. We were soldiers is a truly patriotic piece, not like the patriotism that soccer moms have when they fly their flags out of a mini-van window, but the kind of patriotism that war-battered soldiers know. I am a young Air Force nerd and will probably never see a single battle, but I salute those who have fought for this country and died, even if the rest of this nation might disagree with the politics of a particular war. This picture is truly sincere and embraces the fact that men of war are in fact men, with families, friends and lives. It also recognizes that in war both sides lose, and that no one really wins.