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I almost replied the other day, but had to go somewhere and didn't have time.
Only problem is that all I was going to say is that I am not very familiar with OIF movies. They just rub me the wrong way because, by and large, they are Hollywood's attempt to show us why war is so awful and what a meanie George Bush is [was]. So many of them tend to concentrate on how screwed up all of the characters were when they got back home and how at least one or more characters had to die in a firefight in order to make all the other characters flip out when they returned. Did this happen? Sure, but these movies suggest that everyone who went had some form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) when they returned. It did not happen with the frequency that they suggest (nearly 100%). Of course a story about someone like me who went, served in an infantry platoon where nobody died and came home with a feeling of a) a job well done, and b ) that I was doing a good thing, wouldn't make a good movie (or fit their agenda.)
Sorry about that Vee! I'm sure you didn't expect that! I just had to vent a little. 
Note: I found when I typed the letter 'b' and then a ')' it automatically made the following 
. I had to settle for 'b )'.
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I almost replied the other day, but had to go somewhere and didn't have time.
Only problem is that all I was going to say is that I am not very familiar with OIF movies. They just rub me the wrong way because, by and large, they are Hollywood's attempt to show us why war is so awful and what a meanie George Bush is [was]. So many of them tend to concentrate on how screwed up all of the characters were when they got back home and how at least one or more characters had to die in a firefight in order to make all the other characters flip out when they returned. Did this happen? Sure, but these movies suggest that everyone who went had some form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) when they returned. It did not happen with the frequency that they suggest (nearly 100%). Of course a story about someone like me who went, served in an infantry platoon where nobody died and came home with a feeling of a) a job well done, and that I was doing a good thing, wouldn't make a good movie (or fit their agenda.)
Sorry about that Vee! I'm sure you didn't expect that! I just had to vent a little.
GOOD ANSWER CAPT. TODD----GOOD ANSWER. ROCKY
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Sorry Todd!
I did not know that this kind of movie you rub the wrong way.
I posted this film simply because I have liked it !!
I'll post more this kind of movie !
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Sorry Todd!
I did not know that this kind of movie you rub the wrong way.
Nothing to be sorry about! This is "Are you a moviegoer" not "be sure and post stuff that Capt Todd agrees with politically"!! 
If I blacklisted everything that annoyed me in some way politically, I couldn't listen to or watch anything that came out of the entertainment industry!
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Me thinks you "vented" too much on Vee's movie. Like you, many of us on here have been there but do not worry about the Hollywood fantasies!!
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Me thinks you "vented" too much on Vee's movie. Like you, many of us on here have been there but do not worry about the Hollywood fantasies!!
I THINK IT'S TIME TO CHANGE TO ANOTHER SUBJECT. JUST HANG TOUGH CAPT.
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I have no idea 
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A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a martini. The bartender figures that a kangaroo probably isn't very economically aware, and charges him $50. The marsupial orders a beer next time, and is charged $60. Finally, the bartender's curiosity gets the better of him. He casually remarks, "You know, we don't get too many kangaroos in here."
The kangaroo replies, "At these prices, no wonder."
Rim shot please!!
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OK, OK! One More!
Two cannibals walk into a bar and sits beside this clown. The first cannibal wacks the clown on the head and they both start eating the clown. Suddenly the second cannibal looks up and says, "Hey, do you taste something funny?"
Courtesy of http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/walktodrink/walkbar.html
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OK, OK! One More!
Two cannibals walk into a bar and sits beside this clown. The first cannibal wacks the clown on the head and they both start eating the clown. Suddenly the second cannibal looks up and says, "Hey, do you taste something funny?"
Courtesy of http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/walktodrink/walkbar.html
MAN OH MAN!! It took me an hour to go through all of this !! At least nothing on movies.
