…such as 13 Hours, Full Metal Jacket, Jarhead, etc. and think to yourself: There but by the grace of God go I?
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Yes. I rarely watch movies of any kind, but when I do watch war movies, I am overcome with gratitude for the men who fight to protect us. And I am reminded of how fortunate American women have been up until now to not be sent into the fight. We will see how long that lasts.
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When I watch war movies, it always reminds me of why I despise Western feminists. So many men have suffered so much so that we can live in freedom and peace. Feminists have no gratitude at all. Makes me angry.
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Surely. Apocalypse Now comes to mind as the most horrifying film I have ever made the mistake of watching. Segment II of The Deer Hunter is a close second. š¦
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Yes ma’am both are horrifying. Somebody tried to peg tag me with COL Kurtz as a nickname but couldn’t get it to stick.
These, Judy, are my allies.
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Col Kurtz is not the least bit funny! Plus I don’t like Joseph Conrad.
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… and Hunter Biden takes bronze.
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In response to the question in the OP: Not often; it took me two-plus-a-bit days to watch āAmerican Sniperā. But, I have watched āThe Quiet Americanā, and āThe Best Years of Our Livesā is one I watch yearly: Oh, and āTaking Chanceā is a must on Memorial Day. āCalled and Chosenā – about Fr.-Lt. Vincent Capodanno – is a must on Labor Day weekend, too
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American Sniper was spectacularly made (kudos to Eastwood) but of course the ending devastated the entire audience. Nobody moved out of their seats for a good ten minutes and you could hear women crying. Even my husband who is a very reserved man, was cursing loudly.
P.S. This was the only time I have ever liked Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for insisting the funeral be held at At&T stadium.
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Simon, you talk often about The State so I want to know what the hell happened here with Chris Kyle. Why on earth would the VA expose one of our greatest heroes to an obviously PTSD afflicted vet? And give him a gun???
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Yeah, well why did the mom of that psycho kid who shut up his school at Sandy Hook get HIM a gun? Several, as I recall.
Maybe she, as I imagine was the case withKyle, wanted to demonstrate trust? With Kyle, maybe he himself found shooting fun and relaxing ( when it was only at targets) and wanted his tortured fellow vet to regain the pleasure? But both mom and Kyle are dead now, and in retrospect they both seem like total morons.
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āComing Homeā is on my list, tooā¦.Jon Voight (whoās a God-loving Hollywood conservative, believe it or not, now) grabbed my attention when I first saw the film, because he didnāt ācheatā the disability portrayal, but now, I think Iād pay more attention to Bruce Dernās character, actually.
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“With Kyle, maybe he himself found shooting fun and relaxing ( when it was only at targets) and wanted his tortured fellow vet to regain the pleasure?”
I truly believe this was the case but the VA psychiatrists did not do their job. Of course, this was an Eastwood interpretation, but the moment in the movie when Eddie Ray Routh showed up at the front door, I knew there was trouble.
Taya Kyle agrees:
“I think, really, if I had the president’s ear, I would tell him it’s time to get our warriors into the private sector for their health care. Period,” she said. “This is not working. The government and the military are meant to protect our borders. They’re meant to protect. They’re meant to fight. They are not in the business of health care. They are horrible at it.”
Exactly right.
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āThe VA psychiatrists didnāt do their jobā: hard to deny that retrospect ābut shrinks in general arenāt very good at predicting who is going to commit mass murder. I think that kid in Parkland was getting some kinda counseling, Iām sure the Sandy Hook shooter was.
And sometimes there seems to be absolutely zero clue that the murderer had this in him, like the guy who tortured and killed a buncha Amish kids in a one room schoolhouse . And the Las Vegas shooter. All apparently normal, Yāknow, āquietāāuntil they werenāt any more.
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Agree but I will admit my shock that the VA was encouraging PTSD vets to take target practice for therapy. I’m no shrink, but this struck me as dangerous.
And now we are minus one of America’s greatest heroes and I’m pretty pissed off that this grand warrior died in country by the hands of his own govt.
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Yes, when someone has mental illness I would think the prudent thing to do would be keepāem away from weapons. Itās like with suicide: it only takes one minute where the lithium dose isnāt working at full strength, and instantly the person has hung or shot himself! And very likely, taken along anyone unlucky enough to be there at that moment.
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I totally understand your outrage and concern, Liz and Hypatia, but if the VA starts trying to take guns away from veterans who experience PTSD, veterans will stop seeking treatment. This is probably already happening. If I remember correctly, Kris Kyle also suffered from PTSD: large numbers of combat veterans do. Are we going to take guns away from all of them? If we try to do that, the result will simply be that no one will ever seek help.
As for keeping guns away from those with a mental illness, define mental illness. Should anyone who sees a therapist for depression have their gun taken away? Who decides who is mentally ill, and who isn’t? It would seem that families are best equipped to do this, but that creates problems too: “red flag” laws can be used by ex wives or relatives with an axe to grind.
This is a very dangerous road to go down. I am no fan of the VA, but sometimes people do horrible things, and it isn’t anybody’s fault, other than the perpetrator’s.
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