My father CSM passed on 9 September 2021. He served 31 years. Ranger unit, 5 th SFG(Abn) and SFOD. 4 tours of Vietnam. It was our connection. He loved this movie.
My father (MSG Joseph Morin) was one of 10 or 12 soldiers from Fort Bragg who was selected to appear in the Green Berets movie which was filmed at Fort Benning. I remember in 1968 going to a movie theater at Fort Bragg to watch it with the family for the first time. He had a speaking part in the movie, and I was so proud of him for that. The two weeks he was at Fort Benning for the filming, he told me John Wayne (The Duke) treated them like gold. Thanks Duke for treating my father so well, he remembered that the remaining 32 years of his life.
Gray Fox [ROU] Oh you can, Republicans and Democrats alike are nasty sheep. Wayne was more than that, he was a conservative, a patriot and an American.
@Kenneth Sloan Dude was classified as 3-A for WW2 and was 34 with a bum shoulder he broke at USC and couldnt be enlisted. He had applied to the Naval Academy when he was younger and was rejected and tried getting reclassified as 1-A for WW2 to be drafted but his studio went behind his back and prevented that, he likely wouldnt have been accepted for any duty. That book sounds like a load of horse shit from a pansy who looks to criticize everyone right of mao.
I remember taking my future wife to see the movie at the Drive-In Theare when I was a teenager...49 years later I still remember that movie like it was yesterday....Yes, we are still married.
leo2saints I am very very sorry for your lost I am 56 years old and really did not understand that war until I saw this movie I thank God every day for the men and women who gave the sacrifice for the freedoms we have
I worked special service black ops in Vietnam 1966-67. I went to Fort Benning for jump school and worked with some Green Berets for a while in Vietnam. I still have the beret that they gave me. A brave bunch of guys..
Watching John Wayne's Col. Kirby fight back tears himself while trying to muster the courage to confront a tearful Ham Chuck, I don't understand how anyone can claim Wayne was not a "true actor." Great actor, and one of the greatest scenes in motion picture history. I will never NOT cry while watching it.
To all veterans of foreign wars, from the European theaters to the Pacific sea and the jungles of southeast Asia and the desert of the middle east, on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you for your sacrifices and services to our great nation. God Bless you. God Bless America.
Reminds me of 1945 when I was allowed to return to my village in Kazan, Russia. Being one of the few who survived and returned home alive and fortunately unscathed, except for some war wounds, I can still remember my relatives and distant relations and friends and all of the village neighbors crying and weeping, their fathers taking in the news with stolid eyes but with moist eyes and tears around their eyelids. I will never forget that. So many relatives and friends lost in WW II and I can still remember them all. I am now 93 years old. WW II maybe order but it was never over for me.
@@jspee1965 Boy I'm glad TH-cam has the translation feature. It allows me to call you out your very own absolute nonsense. Who are you to doubt the man's story and for what reason?
Same here.expecially hearing the kid crying out Peterson Peterson over and over and then looking at John Wayne and John Wayne look back at him and then when the kid shouts no! no! That part got me crying.
I saw The Green Berets for the first time in '72 on TV and 47 years later I still get choked up over that closing seen. I don't care if people thought the movie was hokie. Tyranny in this World today still brings despair to millions. John Wayne did a great service to our country in those days and made heros of the real men fighting that Tyranny. Thank you Duke! Tim Sr.
@@Superiorplatypus in his defense, he was a fervent anti communist and despised the Soviet Union. He fought against the invading red army as Finnish soldier, he then allied himself with Germany and joined the SS, but didn’t take part in the holocaust to anyones knowledge. He then served as an American officer for the next 15-20 years and is considered one of the most influential green berets officers and a true warrior. He was not a nazi sympathizer and shouldn’t be regarded as one by the history books
@@Superiorplatypus Lauri (Larry Thorne) was a soldier his whole life. Declaring "I'm a Nazi" back then meant being in the Nazi party and holding their ideals as way of life. He just hated commies and never as part of the SS did anything to non combatants. He's buried in Arlington. And as Israeli I admire his service. a VERY cool dude. go on and seek life else where and other people to desecrate.
@@Superiorplatypus 1/3 he was in SS. Only because that was the only way to fight communists, previous army had made peace so fighting was not possible. He didnt give a fuck about Hitlers ideology, read your history pls.
Well he did operate on NVA, VC, and ARVNs as well as Americans. Says for the first two, an MP had to be present because they were told to try & stab/kill the surgeons & nurses. Sheesh. Our young men deserved much MUCH more gratitude & to me all our Americans there were heroes.
John Wayne was a idol with mine growing up or I should say role model through his movies never heard a bad thing about him in any publication ever and this movie in the end I can't stop crying!!!! But he was right at the end he says let me worry about this my Green Beret this is what the war is all about you and providing a brighter future for you!!!!! :)
This is my favorite part of the film. Now, the entire film is my favorite. This little boy reflects how many Peterson's never came home. To fight for the Oppressed. I understand now. And I love John Wayne even more than I did before.
Alway watched John wayne with my late Dad, sadly lost 2 years ago this month. But this part, always got to him cause he lost his Elder brother in a Japanese camp in 2nd world war.
My condolences. My dad loved this movie and was heartbroken when he couldn't join because of his heart conditions. I, myself, attempted to join but couldn't because of the same reasons.
I always get through this movie until the very end...I remember watching this in 1981 or so, right before I enlisted in the US Army, and it had an influence on me to become a Paratrooper....Not a GB, but a Paratrooper...Maybe the proudest thing I ever did....
These people lost so much in their fight to be free of communism and still couldn’t win. So many came to America to find their dream here. They’ve become a great part of our nation. Lest we never forget the sacrifices them and our soldiers made in Southeast Asia.
A Green Beret in my Company, a boat person orphan to the US from Vietnam adopted to nice parents I met, he picked up the nickname Ham Chuck because if we age him back, he was about the age of the boy here. Of course everyone says. "was my Petersen brave"?
My mom could never stand to watch this scene, she would tear up every time. I think it's because it reminded her of those times her dad made it back from Vietnam knowing that there was always a good chance of never seeing him again.
@@robwillesq That is what you intoned by saying "we". I'm the last guy in the world looking to get offended. That garbage comes from the current leftist playbook.
I watched this movie when I was a kid, my dad and he bought the movie cassette and this was the saddest part that I had to watch even after over 30 years.
This movie screams for a sequel (Not as a reboot movie that seems to be the Hollywood trend now) with a now full grown Ham Chung Kirby as a Green Beret Officer. A visual cue such as Ham Chung holding/ looking at Peter San's beret cover or dialog mentioning something from the 1968 movie as an indirect nod to John Wayne's character Col. Kirby would be quadruple thumbs up awesome.
Watched this as a kid (in Leeds UK ) when it first came out in the 1960s, watched it Numerous times, 50 years later it still one of my favourite films, much to the amusement of my wife and grown up daughters, as they know this scene always makes me cry then and now !
Yeah they make basic Marines and basic soldiers look like Boy Scouts. But every branch has their special operations units. Green berets do not make SEALs, pararescuers, MARSOC, Delta Force, etc., look like Boy Scouts. They often train together anyway.
Still one of my favorites. Mr Petersaaan. Jeez. God bless the Marines and how they let us sleep tonight. America has forgotten or even worse...don't care.
My brother-in-law Patrick, a Marine Corps sniper, brought back a very young fellow from Vietnam... thus saving the entire family that Communists would surely have murdered. May GOD Bless Pat & his family & 'win'/ Nguyen & his family!!!
My granduncle who fought in WW II and who is the real darthvader5300 passed away at 2022 at age 94, just a few months from his 95th birthday in that year of 2022, he was 18 years old in 1945, I am speaking for him, it is not bullshit and it is not absolute nonsense. My granduncle lives in a village in Kazan, as far as I am concern, even if Kazan has grown engulfing Kazan, his village is still a village. How many villages were swallowed up by growing cities and became part of that city? Think twice. My granduncle is a retired KGB analyst intelligence officer who was trained to speak ENGLISH SO THAT HE CAN PASS him self as a native American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand. Never use anything that connects him to Russia, use only foreign technology.
That last movie I believe to support the Vietnam War God Bless are Armed Forces who had to go through the hell of Vietnam alive or unfortunately didn't make it or later came home and passed on due to the war
Duke resurrected George Takei's career with this film after Star Trek was cancelled. Anyone recall George publically recognizing John Wayne during his many appearances on Howard Stern? "Oh my."
The Green Berets was one of the Dukes better movies of the 60s along with True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Sons of Katie Elder also The War Wagon and The Longest Day were also very good.
db2664 You said, "The Green Berets was one of the Dukes better movies..." What did others say...? The Guardian 11 July, 2014 "The Green Berets: how the war was spun" "On The Green Berets' release in 1968, the New York Times said it was "unspeakable … stupid … rotten … false in every detail … It is vile and insane. On top of that, it is dull." Getting on for half a century later, it's still hard to argue with that verdict. At least the Soviets made good propaganda movies." www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/11/the-green-berets-reel-history-john-wayne-vietnam-war The War Movie Buff This blog reviews war movies with special emphasis on historical accuracy. Thursday, June 4, 2015 HOW BAD IS IT? The Green Berets (1968) "“The Green Berets” is considered THE WORST VIETNAM WAR MOVIE EVER MADE. Let’s see if that is an exaggeration." .......... "In conclusion, it would be hard for “The Green Berets” to be as bad as its reputation. It is certainly not a good movie. You have to be an ultra-conservative to nod knowingly while you watch it. But if you are a Wayne fan, there is a lot to take comfort in. If you are just an average war movie lover, you can enjoy the action and laugh at the ridiculous moments that make it something of a camp classic. It is definitely not the worst Vietnam War movie, but it is probably the worst big budget one." warmoviebuff.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-bad-is-it-green-berets-1968.html Career After Military 10 Most Inaccurate Military Movies Ever Made NOVEMBER 11, 2012 BY CHRIS BARKER 2. The Green Berets (1968) "There are many flawed Vietnam War movies, but none are quite as out of touch as John Wayne’s The Green Berets. Essentially, the film was a propaganda movie meant to counter the burgeoning anti-war movement. It was grossly misleading, both in military details and in terms of capturing the mood of the time." www.careeraftermilitary.com/10-most-inaccurate-military-movies-ever-made/ And so on. Reviewer after reviewer, many of them ex-military and/or Vietnam Vets, said it was either bad or worse. A couple said it was good as movie just to watch and enjoy as a John Wayne action movie, with cowboys in camo and Indians in black pajamas. But its accuracy was nearly non-existant. Personally, I've never seen it. I did my year in SEA, I have no need to relive it. Certainly not with a movie so many others who were there have little or nothing good to say about it.
@@4y6857 I do not believe that anyone who say this movie complete inaccurate was even in Vietnam This movie got how Viet cong treated the south Vietnam civilians correct , if anything they Hollywood them to easy I have to go with sergeant Barry Saddler he got those people just right Garrett troopers.
This scene and others struck me hard. My best friend who was going to return to adopt and raise me, died in October 1967. He was a green beret master sargent. His mannerisms were almost identical to that of Jim Hutton, playing Peterson, in that movie. Mac..William Wallace McGrew III from Sugar Grove, Ohio passed away in that war in Oct. 1967. There wasn't a dry eye in our house watching Huttons character's death. We were all crying watching this scene in particular. Mac came to his own funeral to let me and his mother know he made it to heaven. The lesson to learn in that is that fighting in war is not murder. God is real and the next unjust war is coming sooner than anyone is prepared for. Rapture will surely be this year and then The Great Tribulation will begin. Repent, change your mind about wanting to sin. Know that Jesus died for your sins and is your only hope of going to heaven. The thief on the cross wasn't baptized. He admitted his guilt and repented. Because he believed Jesus was the Son of God, he got to be in paradise with Jesus that very day. The other refused to believe or repent. His reward is eternal damnation. I know God, Jesus and His Holy Spirit are real. Seek Him and His kingdom while you still can. Don't be in the military fighting against the real Jesus.
Una producción icónica del gran Duke en legar a la posteridad. Es una pena que se tildara a este gran actor de militarista extremo y no así de un noble patriota. Mis respetos a la memoria de este hombre genial, como fue John Wayne.
Leo Peridot he wasnt a draft dodger he had a legal deferment. There were many ways people could get deferments back then and not have to serve in Vietnam (such as being on an education scholorship) he was not a draft dodger
and to say that the duke was a racist and should be cancelled.... bullshit... he may of been an actor but he was the spirit of this great nation and kept morale high.
The only thing that was wrong with the ending of the film is you see John Wayne walking along the beach, or shoreline with hamchung,but Vietnam faces TO the East, so therefore you would not see any setting of the Sun,I guess a little bobo of the director, but all in all I think a GREAT film!
"You let me worry about that green beret." Such a good line
He probably got left behind
Not a good line, but a great line.
The end of such a tearjerker what is so awesome to see John Wayne walking distance with a little boy why they play the song of the Green berets
My father CSM passed on 9 September 2021. He served 31 years. Ranger unit, 5 th SFG(Abn) and SFOD. 4 tours of Vietnam. It was our connection. He loved this movie.
So sorry for your loss!
My late father was in British special forces in world two he admired John Wayne loved this too me to see it in1968
My father (MSG Joseph Morin) was one of 10 or 12 soldiers from Fort Bragg who was selected to appear in the Green Berets movie which was filmed at Fort Benning. I remember in 1968 going to a movie theater at Fort Bragg to watch it with the family for the first time. He had a speaking part in the movie, and I was so proud of him for that. The two weeks he was at Fort Benning for the filming, he told me John Wayne (The Duke) treated them like gold. Thanks Duke for treating my father so well, he remembered that the remaining 32 years of his life.
Michael Morin wow you should be so dam proud
Was he one of the Green Berets that introduce themselves and their specialty, at the opening of the movie?
I think you can t expect something else from a Republican.
Gray Fox [ROU] Oh you can, Republicans and Democrats alike are nasty sheep. Wayne was more than that, he was a conservative, a patriot and an American.
@Kenneth Sloan Dude was classified as 3-A for WW2 and was 34 with a bum shoulder he broke at USC and couldnt be enlisted. He had applied to the Naval Academy when he was younger and was rejected and tried getting reclassified as 1-A for WW2 to be drafted but his studio went behind his back and prevented that, he likely wouldnt have been accepted for any duty. That book sounds like a load of horse shit from a pansy who looks to criticize everyone right of mao.
I remember taking my future wife to see the movie at the Drive-In Theare when I was a teenager...49 years later I still remember that movie like it was yesterday....Yes, we are still married.
my father died in Vietnam. this movie ALWAYS makes me cry. my utmost respect to those in our armed forces.
leo2saints I am very very sorry for your lost I am 56 years old and really did not understand that war until I saw this movie I thank God every day for the men and women who gave the sacrifice for the freedoms we have
Although my father came home...a big part of him died there. My dad was with the 5th PSYCOPS / Green Berets. God bless your father.
God Bless your father and God Bless all the brave men of the Green Berets.
I'm sorry to hear that brotha:(
leo...Sorry for your loss...My Dad was in Vietnam, US Army 1968...Such a shame these Veterans of that era were so mistreated...Thank You all...
I worked special service black ops in Vietnam 1966-67. I went to Fort Benning for jump school and worked with some Green Berets for a while in Vietnam. I still have the beret that they gave me. A brave bunch of guys..
Watching John Wayne's Col. Kirby fight back tears himself while trying to muster the courage to confront a tearful Ham Chuck, I don't understand how anyone can claim Wayne was not a "true actor." Great actor, and one of the greatest scenes in motion picture history. I will never NOT cry while watching it.
Red Hats arent paratroopers.
While I do not see a remake of The Green Berets, Tom Hanks would be a very good Col. Mike Kirby.
Propaganda, not really his best role
The sun doesn't set in the east
To all veterans of foreign wars, from the European theaters to the Pacific sea and the jungles of southeast Asia and the desert of the middle east, on behalf of a grateful nation, thank you for your sacrifices and services to our great nation. God Bless you. God Bless America.
This is one tough kid. He loses his parents, his beloved dog and his best friend to the war, and yet he finds a way to keep on moving forward.
Reminds me of 1945 when I was allowed to return to my village in Kazan, Russia. Being one of the few who survived and returned home alive and fortunately unscathed, except for some war wounds, I can still remember my relatives and distant relations and friends and all of the village neighbors crying and weeping, their fathers taking in the news with stolid eyes but with moist eyes and tears around their eyelids. I will never forget that. So many relatives and friends lost in WW II and I can still remember them all. I am now 93 years old. WW II maybe order but it was never over for me.
That War sunk it's Evil Talons into almost every country and person on this Planet.
True Horror.
Thank you for your story sir. 🙂
Абсолютная чушь полная.
@@jspee1965 Boy I'm glad TH-cam has the translation feature. It allows me to call you out your very own absolute nonsense.
Who are you to doubt the man's story and for what reason?
I swear i've seen this profile somewhere else
I use to watch this movie with my dad, this part actually made me cry
Same here.expecially hearing the kid crying out Peterson Peterson over and over and then looking at John Wayne and John Wayne look back at him and then when the kid shouts no! no! That part got me crying.
I saw The Green Berets for the first time in '72 on TV and 47 years later I still get choked up over that closing seen. I don't care if people thought the movie was hokie. Tyranny in this World today still brings despair to millions. John Wayne did a great service to our country in those days and made heros of the real men fighting that Tyranny. Thank you Duke!
Tim Sr.
Thank the real guy his character was based on, Larry Thorne, instead.
Wayne was just an actor, Thorne died in Vietnam.
The movie came out during Vietnam era I can remember protester at theaters symbolism of Wayne helping a small child, The US helping smaller countries
The true cost of war is borne by the soldiers who fight it, and their loved ones left behind!
Probably the saddest part of the whole movie
i agree i cry everytime
Saddest scene, yes.
Next to the Lil boy burying the 🐕
Both scenes get me crying every time.
And then my teacher, who happens to be a retired policeman, said that the movie Green Berets is full'o'sht. In my mind I said, "You are full'o'sht."
Yes indeed
@Andrew Becker for you maybe, not for me
Wayne's character is based on a real person Lauri Törni, who served in three armies as an officer through promotions
Yeah and in 2/3 of those armies he was in the SS. Not a cool dude.
@@Superiorplatypus in his defense, he was a fervent anti communist and despised the Soviet Union. He fought against the invading red army as Finnish soldier, he then allied himself with Germany and joined the SS, but didn’t take part in the holocaust to anyones knowledge. He then served as an American officer for the next 15-20 years and is considered one of the most influential green berets officers and a true warrior. He was not a nazi sympathizer and shouldn’t be regarded as one by the history books
@@Superiorplatypus Lauri (Larry Thorne) was a soldier his whole life. Declaring "I'm a Nazi" back then meant being in the Nazi party and holding their ideals as way of life. He just hated commies and never as part of the SS did anything to non combatants. He's buried in Arlington. And as Israeli I admire his service. a VERY cool dude. go on and seek life else where and other people to desecrate.
@@Superiorplatypus 1/3 he was in SS. Only because that was the only way to fight communists, previous army had made peace so fighting was not possible. He didnt give a fuck about Hitlers ideology, read your history pls.
@@Superiorplatypus he's even cooler for it
My dad was a combat surgeon 'Near the Cambo border.' As he says. Respect & gratitude forever for those men & their ARVN allies.
for sale 1 arvn m-16 a1 like new never fired droped once
ARVN/VC same thing. The only ones to have your back were other Americans.
Well he did operate on NVA, VC, and ARVNs as well as Americans. Says for the first two, an MP had to be present because they were told to try & stab/kill the surgeons & nurses. Sheesh. Our young men deserved much MUCH more gratitude & to me all our Americans there were heroes.
John Wayne was a idol with mine growing up or I should say role model through his movies never heard a bad thing about him in any publication ever and this movie in the end I can't stop crying!!!! But he was right at the end he says let me worry about this my Green Beret this is what the war is all about you and providing a brighter future for you!!!!! :)
My grandfather was a Green Beret. Full bird Colonel during Viet Nam. When I see this movie I always think of him and how much of a bad ass he is.
So he was a war criminal.
Wow I would have loved to talk to that man.
Mark Harrison You’re impressively disrespectful.
@@arthurmorgan6087
Forget about him, he's just a troll.
Mark Harrison Fuck off
Gotta love that sun setting in the east...........
Maybe it was rising
This kid would probably look back and see that he held hands with the great John Wayne. If I was that kid, I would consider myself lucky!
Dane Insane damn right
Dane Insane
John Wayne? Greatest actors? Are you kidding? He sucked ass at best The man could NOT act - was the same character in every movie he was in.
Old School Blues Guitar And that is your opinion. I think he's a great actor, but everyone thinks different.
@oldschool blues guitar and that is why we still talk about him 40 years after his death and you are on youtube talking shit.
This is my favorite part of the film. Now, the entire film is my favorite. This little boy reflects how many Peterson's never came home. To fight for the Oppressed. I understand now. And I love John Wayne even more than I did before.
That ending was beautiful & inspirational.
Alway watched John wayne with my late Dad, sadly lost 2 years ago this month. But this part, always got to him cause he lost his Elder brother in a Japanese camp in 2nd world war.
My condolences. My dad loved this movie and was heartbroken when he couldn't join because of his heart conditions. I, myself, attempted to join but couldn't because of the same reasons.
One greatest moments in movie making by John Wayne and little boy turned into a man 🇺🇸
Powerful Ending...Gets Me Every Single Time!
That sene make me cry when ever I see it😢
Proud to be a veteran.
Preserve, Promote and Protect Life(both born and unborn) at ALL Cost.
I always get through this movie until the very end...I remember watching this in 1981 or so, right before I enlisted in the US Army, and it had an influence on me to become a Paratrooper....Not a GB, but a Paratrooper...Maybe the proudest thing I ever did....
My father was there in the 1942/stories of the world wide war 2.
Seen it when I was a kid and seen it now at age 51, the scene still tears me up
Saw it first when I was 14, and even at 50 now it still makes me cry.
Saw it first when I was 12, and even at 25 now it still makes me laugh
Truly the most beautiful ending ever..😢
This and The Searchers (1956) ending.
These people lost so much in their fight to be free of communism and still couldn’t win. So many came to America to find their dream here. They’ve become a great part of our nation. Lest we never forget the sacrifices them and our soldiers made in Southeast Asia.
A Green Beret in my Company, a boat person orphan to the US from Vietnam adopted to nice parents I met, he picked up the nickname Ham Chuck because if we age him back, he was about the age of the boy here. Of course everyone says. "was my Petersen brave"?
Best movie ever ❤
To me growing watching the duke chisum big Jake rio lobo the undefeated he is a legend in my eyes
This scene just tears me up every time.
God bless all war heroes blessing Amen 🙏👼👼👼💖🌟 Amen
my great uncle was a major during vietnam and he help coordinate the flying scenes in this movie. he also flew john wayne during the movie.
WOW THAT WILL BE GREAT STORY ABOUT YOUR UNCLE
i remember the helicopter scene the plastic model on a string on fire how cornball was that you could almost see the match
My mom could never stand to watch this scene, she would tear up every time. I think it's because it reminded her of those times her dad made it back from Vietnam knowing that there was always a good chance of never seeing him again.
One of the saddest movie endings in cinematic history.
Even sadder when he says "You're what this is all about." We let him down.
I'm 65 years old now and this ending still makes me cry.
@@robwillesq "We" didn't let anyone down. The US govt let them down.
Spew my hate at military personnel? You are dense. Some people are just looking to be offended.
@@robwillesq That is what you intoned by saying "we".
I'm the last guy in the world looking to get offended. That garbage comes from the current leftist playbook.
I watched this movie when I was a kid, my dad and he bought the movie cassette and this was the saddest part that I had to watch even after over 30 years.
My dad and I watched this movie a lot when I was a kid. He dies 15 years ago and this still reminds me of him
Beautiful movie god bless war heroes Amen 👼👼💖🎈🌟💓
emotional movie ending to a john wayne classic
it was a very badly made propaganda movie, you can even see pine trees in certain scenes
2000Betelgeuse dude this is one of the better vietnam movies
This movie screams for a sequel (Not as a reboot movie that seems to be the Hollywood trend now) with a now full grown Ham Chung Kirby as a Green Beret Officer. A visual cue such as Ham Chung holding/ looking at Peter San's beret cover or dialog mentioning something from the 1968 movie as an indirect nod to John Wayne's character Col. Kirby would be quadruple thumbs up awesome.
I could not agree with you more. That sounds like a fantastic idea.
One of my favourite films
I am a "Peter-San", and I approve this video
Watched this as a kid (in Leeds UK ) when it first came out in the 1960s, watched it Numerous times, 50 years later it still one of my favourite films, much to the amusement of my wife and grown up daughters, as they know this scene always makes me cry then and now !
These guys make the Marines look like
Boy Scouts. I should know. I was one.
Which one? Boy Scouts?
I was one too back at my school, for 8 years until I finished school in '96.
Yeah they make basic Marines and basic soldiers look like Boy Scouts. But every branch has their special operations units. Green berets do not make SEALs, pararescuers, MARSOC, Delta Force, etc., look like Boy Scouts. They often train together anyway.
Semper Fi. Thank you for your service.
My gramps was in this movie as one of the villains, rip grampa 🙏
That was an amazing movie and song for the heroes as a vet myself many thanks
This and when he buries his dog is the saddest scene since jim Brown died the year before in the dirty dozen...
Still one of my favorites. Mr Petersaaan. Jeez. God bless the Marines and how they let us sleep tonight. America has forgotten or even worse...don't care.
So touching
Thank you. ❤
My brother-in-law Patrick, a Marine Corps sniper, brought back a very young fellow from Vietnam... thus saving the entire family that Communists would surely have murdered. May GOD Bless Pat & his family & 'win'/ Nguyen & his family!!!
I just got goosebumps dam that is a good movie
LOVE JOHN WAYNE WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL
Great movie
This scene always makes me cry especially when the duke at to let him worry about what happens to ham Chung
i love this song my boy friends was a green berets he reture 20 years
Kathryn Davis Praise God he made it home
One of the greatest scenes in movie history by a true patriotic American
yes killing innocent women and children is very patriotic
My granduncle who fought in WW II and who is the real darthvader5300 passed away at 2022 at age 94, just a few months from his 95th birthday in that year of 2022, he was 18 years old in 1945, I am speaking for him, it is not bullshit and it is not absolute nonsense. My granduncle lives in a village in Kazan, as far as I am concern, even if Kazan has grown engulfing Kazan, his village is still a village. How many villages were swallowed up by growing cities and became part of that city? Think twice. My granduncle is a retired KGB analyst intelligence officer who was trained to speak ENGLISH SO THAT HE CAN PASS him self as a native American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand. Never use anything that connects him to Russia, use only foreign technology.
Love this movie. A tear jerker in the end.
Caroline Ullrich are you kidding me that was so unbelievably cheesy
@@scottwilliam3470 Cheesy huh? What do you value?
Great movie. Sad ending
That last movie I believe to support the Vietnam War God Bless are Armed Forces who had to go through the hell of Vietnam alive or unfortunately didn't make it or later came home and passed on due to the war
Beautiful music movie . thank war heroes Amen 👼👼💖
Duke resurrected George Takei's career with this film after Star Trek was cancelled. Anyone recall George publically recognizing John Wayne during his many appearances on Howard Stern? "Oh my."
I like this movie watch it all the time
The Green Berets was one of the Dukes better movies of the 60s along with True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Sons of Katie Elder also The War Wagon and The Longest Day were also very good.
db2664
You said, "The Green Berets was one of the Dukes better movies..."
What did others say...?
The Guardian
11 July, 2014
"The Green Berets: how the war was spun"
"On The Green Berets' release in 1968, the New York Times said it was "unspeakable … stupid … rotten … false in every detail … It is vile and insane. On top of that, it is dull." Getting on for half a century later, it's still hard to argue with that verdict. At least the Soviets made good propaganda movies."
www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/11/the-green-berets-reel-history-john-wayne-vietnam-war
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
HOW BAD IS IT? The Green Berets (1968)
"“The Green Berets” is considered THE WORST VIETNAM WAR MOVIE EVER MADE. Let’s see if that is an exaggeration."
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"In conclusion, it would be hard for “The Green Berets” to be as bad as its reputation. It is certainly not a good movie. You have to be an ultra-conservative to nod knowingly while you watch it. But if you are a Wayne fan, there is a lot to take comfort in. If you are just an average war movie lover, you can enjoy the action and laugh at the ridiculous moments that make it something of a camp classic. It is definitely not the worst Vietnam War movie, but it is probably the worst big budget one."
warmoviebuff.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-bad-is-it-green-berets-1968.html
Career After Military
10 Most Inaccurate Military Movies Ever Made
NOVEMBER 11, 2012 BY CHRIS BARKER
2. The Green Berets (1968)
"There are many flawed Vietnam War movies, but none are quite as out of touch as John Wayne’s The Green Berets. Essentially, the film was a propaganda movie meant to counter the burgeoning anti-war movement. It was grossly misleading, both in military details and in terms of capturing the mood of the time."
www.careeraftermilitary.com/10-most-inaccurate-military-movies-ever-made/
And so on. Reviewer after reviewer, many of them ex-military and/or Vietnam Vets, said it was either bad or worse. A couple said it was good as movie just to watch and enjoy as a John Wayne action movie, with cowboys in camo and Indians in black pajamas. But its accuracy was nearly non-existant.
Personally, I've never seen it. I did my year in SEA, I have no need to relive it. Certainly not with a movie so many others who were there have little or nothing good to say about it.
@@4y6857 I do not believe that anyone who say this movie complete inaccurate was even in Vietnam
This movie got how Viet cong treated the south Vietnam civilians correct , if anything they Hollywood them to easy
I have to go with sergeant Barry Saddler he got those people just right Garrett troopers.
Bruce Nadeau OK. Another opinion heard. As I said, I haven’t seen it, nor do I plan to, so I have no personal opinion.
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
That's a heart tugger.
i watched that movie when i was young and still in my memory. nakakaiyak yang part na hinahanap ng bata c peterson
The best film ever
Shiggit Dirgantara you have very bad taste in movies
The sheer size and screen presence of John always gets me and its especially noticeable in this scene
He was far too old and fat.
@@markharrison2544 lol youre far too gay you fucking pansy
@@lougehrig9787 So glad he died of cancer.
@@markharrison2544 truly you don’t care for anyone
tear jerker
And how poetic. It was a John Wayne movie.
I read LBJ like the idea of the movie so much that he supported it loaning those helicopters and equipment
every time I hear the helo's it reminds when they came in Danang. in 71
I always liked the Ballad of the Green Beret, except for the word ‘win’. Makes it sound like a contest. You don’t win it, you earn it.
"Was my Peterson brave?"
"He was very brave."
The army does the work the Navy pays for the Marines get the credit rip Green berets
My dad had just left fort benning heading to Vietnam he missed meeting john wayne by several months the movie was shot in Fort benning
This scene and others struck me hard. My best friend who was going to return to adopt and raise me, died in October 1967. He was a green beret master sargent. His mannerisms were almost identical to that of Jim Hutton, playing Peterson, in that movie. Mac..William Wallace McGrew III from Sugar Grove, Ohio passed away in that war in Oct. 1967. There wasn't a dry eye in our house watching Huttons character's death. We were all crying watching this scene in particular. Mac came to his own funeral to let me and his mother know he made it to heaven. The lesson to learn in that is that fighting in war is not murder. God is real and the next unjust war is coming sooner than anyone is prepared for. Rapture will surely be this year and then The Great Tribulation will begin. Repent, change your mind about wanting to sin. Know that Jesus died for your sins and is your only hope of going to heaven. The thief on the cross wasn't baptized. He admitted his guilt and repented. Because he believed Jesus was the Son of God, he got to be in paradise with Jesus that very day. The other refused to believe or repent. His reward is eternal damnation. I know God, Jesus and His Holy Spirit are real. Seek Him and His kingdom while you still can. Don't be in the military fighting against the real Jesus.
The most heartbreaking ending to war movie ever
Not really, the movie sucked on so many levels
Watch the ending of siege of fire base Gloria 1988.
R. Lee Ermey and wings Hauser
2000Betelgeuse dude this movie was great
Una producción icónica del gran Duke en legar a la posteridad. Es una pena que se tildara a este gran actor de militarista extremo y no así de un noble patriota. Mis respetos a la memoria de este hombre genial, como fue John Wayne.
John Wayne played Finnish-American soldier Lauri Törni in this movie.
Lauri Törni - The soldier who fought in 3 armies.
Better dead than red 💪🇫🇮
2:15 really almost got me bursting out crying.im not joking.😢
i believe this was one of john waynes last movies (getting old and had a smoking disease or something). a truly great actor caught up in this movie..
Terminal lung cancer from cigarettes
@@tomwikum7001cast
A pretty decent movie. Seen it several times.
Best scene and song!
We still had more then 6 years to go in this war.
As John Wayne quoted we only lost the war when I said I or We said I lost the war .
Roger Frost we didnt lose...we left!
Leo Peridot he wasnt a draft dodger he had a legal deferment. There were many ways people could get deferments back then and not have to serve in Vietnam (such as being on an education scholorship) he was not a draft dodger
I knew better than to watch this again!
My father served in the same Platoon.
That’s really sad.
Rip duke !
and to say that the duke was a racist and should be cancelled.... bullshit... he may of been an actor but he was the spirit of this great nation and kept morale high.
The only thing that was wrong with the ending of the film is you see John Wayne walking along the beach, or shoreline with hamchung,but Vietnam faces TO the East, so therefore you would not see any setting of the Sun,I guess a little bobo of the director, but all in all I think a GREAT film!