I think we're pretty much on the same page from your comments. If there is blatant historical errors that would demean the persons portrayed, we'll that's different, and it does bother me. There are even some occaisions when I prefer that some of our American Heroes are portrayed as something larger than life. I still believe that kids need "heroes" for positive roll models, and I don't mean phony baloney like the [iRambo[/i] flicks, but something along the lines of John Wayne's portrayal of Sgt. Stryker in The Sands of Iwo Jima. Many would disagree with me there, but I think that character is much better for kids to admire than today's professional athletes. Tom Hanks character in SPR is perhaps another example, as a person who was able to rise above his fears in order to do what had to be done, which is really what men in combat are asked to do.
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