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<blockquote data-quote="Stepper" data-source="post: 561198" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>Alice,</p><p></p><p>I am not a Vet. I did serve 6 years in the Army National Gaurd. I had 2 brothers who were both drafted right out of high school into the viet nam war. I have talked with each one of them and their personal experiences is as different as day and night. One brother wound up in a part of the war like the soldiers who were in the movie platoon, the other ones experience was almost like getting a free college education. He wound up training in neculear weapons spending the majority of his time in a much safer enviroment the whole time he served his time.</p><p></p><p>But when i went through boot camp and other parts of training alot of the instructors, drill sargents etc...., were themselfs viet nam vets. One time while i was going through a non comissioned officers school the movie platoon had just started showing at movie cenimas. And alot of the men taking that course were veit nam vets and one of the instructors was also. That instructon who was a viet nam vet himself felt that the movie platoon was so close to what had happened in alot of ways as to when he himself was serving his tour that he took us all ( everyone taking his course at the time ) down to see the movie. He told the other vets taking the course that he felt it would help them the best i can remember now in some way to help them deal with what they had went through. I really never did understand how it would help them to relive what they had gone through. But i do remember a couple of the men watching the movie really teering up while watching it.</p><p></p><p>I will say this. From what i experienced while i was in the military i can very easily see alot of the things that took place in the movie platoon really happening. I sincerely feel that anyone who would spit on a vet of any past, present or future war should be taken out and shot. War is like anything else in life, there is the way people think it should be fought version and then there is the reality version of how things really turn out in a real sitution sort of the way it plays out in the movie platoon. All of these men and women who served and are serving our country today should be treated with the greatest respect possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stepper, post: 561198, member: 3398"] Alice, I am not a Vet. I did serve 6 years in the Army National Gaurd. I had 2 brothers who were both drafted right out of high school into the viet nam war. I have talked with each one of them and their personal experiences is as different as day and night. One brother wound up in a part of the war like the soldiers who were in the movie platoon, the other ones experience was almost like getting a free college education. He wound up training in neculear weapons spending the majority of his time in a much safer enviroment the whole time he served his time. But when i went through boot camp and other parts of training alot of the instructors, drill sargents etc...., were themselfs viet nam vets. One time while i was going through a non comissioned officers school the movie platoon had just started showing at movie cenimas. And alot of the men taking that course were veit nam vets and one of the instructors was also. That instructon who was a viet nam vet himself felt that the movie platoon was so close to what had happened in alot of ways as to when he himself was serving his tour that he took us all ( everyone taking his course at the time ) down to see the movie. He told the other vets taking the course that he felt it would help them the best i can remember now in some way to help them deal with what they had went through. I really never did understand how it would help them to relive what they had gone through. But i do remember a couple of the men watching the movie really teering up while watching it. I will say this. From what i experienced while i was in the military i can very easily see alot of the things that took place in the movie platoon really happening. I sincerely feel that anyone who would spit on a vet of any past, present or future war should be taken out and shot. War is like anything else in life, there is the way people think it should be fought version and then there is the reality version of how things really turn out in a real sitution sort of the way it plays out in the movie platoon. All of these men and women who served and are serving our country today should be treated with the greatest respect possible. [/QUOTE]
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