ZetorShaun
Bronze Member
Great movie, two points I took from it:
1. How much they portrayed him as anguishing as far as giving the nation's enemies a killing. Contentious Objectors are usually troublemakers in today's volunteer force. They scam us for paid schooling or want to get out of something.
2. At the end he is given a farm by Kentucky or Tennessee (not sure, saw this a long time ago). I wonder what happened to that farm...did he sell it, did his descendants sell, how many acres, has it been chopped up and sold as smaller pieces, etc. I sure would like Ohio to pay off my farm (I always kid my wife, if something happens to me, I will literally "buy the farm" ha ha ), of course I have not taken a whole battalion of the enemy prisoner, they just blow us up at random at night and smile at us during the day, what a different war.
He was just one of those guys, you can still find them in the Army, not like me, I am a cynic). I like the portrayal, hope it was accurate as to his character. Recommend Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole, Cross of Iron with James Coburn, or as for this war, The Hurt Locker (it is pretty sensationalized but has some good points).
1. How much they portrayed him as anguishing as far as giving the nation's enemies a killing. Contentious Objectors are usually troublemakers in today's volunteer force. They scam us for paid schooling or want to get out of something.
2. At the end he is given a farm by Kentucky or Tennessee (not sure, saw this a long time ago). I wonder what happened to that farm...did he sell it, did his descendants sell, how many acres, has it been chopped up and sold as smaller pieces, etc. I sure would like Ohio to pay off my farm (I always kid my wife, if something happens to me, I will literally "buy the farm" ha ha ), of course I have not taken a whole battalion of the enemy prisoner, they just blow us up at random at night and smile at us during the day, what a different war.
He was just one of those guys, you can still find them in the Army, not like me, I am a cynic). I like the portrayal, hope it was accurate as to his character. Recommend Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole, Cross of Iron with James Coburn, or as for this war, The Hurt Locker (it is pretty sensationalized but has some good points).