I traveled to Vietnam to watch 'We Were Soldiers' for the first time
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you need to watch Band Of Brothers!!!
You need to watch "miracle in cell no. 7" the korean movie one
You picked a tough, but very good film. ❤
Conscripted? Dude was already in the army. FFS
I'm ex-infantry. The leaves are not there to make you disappear. It just breaks up the outline of a human.
Col.Moore tracked down the wife of the soldier who almost got him to return his small red notebook to her. Along with a note telling her that he died bravely, quickly and without fear.
He went there with old iron jaw himself too, Sgt Major Plumly was in his 90s at the time but nothing stopped him
General Hal Moore fought for years to get Bruce "Snake Shit" Crandall and Ed "Too Tall" Freeman the Medal of Honor. He succeeded in getting Crandall's first. Crandall asked to be taken off of the list until Freeman received his. Reading their Medal of Honor citations is impressive. General Moore was true to his word. He never had an MIA soldier under his command. Joe Galloway is the only civilian to ever receive the Bronze Star for combat valor for heroism in Vietnam from the Army, for his actions in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley.
I met Crandall in 2010 at Whidbey Island. He was touring/visiting all the aviation bases/commands in WA.
I never knew that. Awesome.
Ed Freeman's Uniform is on display in the 1st Cavalry Division Museum in Fort Hood, Texas.
In the church scene, the old man and lady sitting behind Mel Gibson is the real Col. Moore and his wife.
Australia lost 521 military personnel out of the 60,000 deployed there during the war between 1962 to 1975. 3,000 Australians were wounded.
+ "X amount" to agent orange etc.
@@notsureyou At end of the day, every soldier who goes to war is a casualty. Song "I Was Only 19" by Redgum hits hard on the Australian Vietnam experience.
That “acid bomb” is phosphorus grenade
Correct.
Burns when on contact with oxygen.
White phosphorus. It ignites spontaneously upon contact with air and it's almost impossible to extinguish.
Let us not forget while this is a story of brave young soldiers, it is also the story of journalist Joseph L. Galloway.
"I'm glad I died for my country." Said no one ever. Those I SAW who made this claim never left without fear and regret. Words of nationalism are the clumsy Langly fingerprints of propaganda in this fairy-tale. Still there are those who will continue to say this tripe. Mostly by those who never fought. Sometimes by liars who saw war and know what i am talking about.
My father participated in this battle. He was in the second group of helicopters.
My dad was in the Army during Vietnam (never was deployed, thank God) and, to answer your question about lack of ear protection, the DoD in their infinite wisdom thought at the time troops only needed ear protection on the side from where you shoot your rifle. As you can imagine, it still caused issues for our veterans' hearing further down the line.
Army hearing protection came in 1980s , both ear plugs and muff , you needed in shooting training watch the officer , you could barely hear him scream orders.
That was a bit over compensating in other direction .
The U.S. military issued earplugs throughout the Afghan and Iraq wars, but many soldiers chose not to wear them saying they "compromised situational awareness".
@@476429 Not to mention that, as I understand it, they were also defective.
Sam Elliot was 🔥 in this, that “Custer was a 🐱, you aint!” Is the best line ever
I use the "fcking weatherman now" as often as I can. A lot, in fact.
This movie is so surreal. It is a toss up for me which one I like better: We Were Soldiers, or Hacksaw Ridge.
I had an uncle who served in Vietnam. He got hit by an explosive that took off both his legs. He survived all night, crawling up a hill until his comrades found him. He survived, came home, and he and his wife built an entire clan of kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. When he passed away, practically the entire town in his home of Owensboro Kentucky came out to pay their respects. The funeral home was packed to the rafters from morning until evening, and the church was crowded literally out the doors. One time I asked him about his war experience. He told me, "If I was still a young man and had my legs, I would have signed up for Afghanistan." He was an amazing man.
Hacksaw ridge is a lovely film, and an important chapter in how Americans remember our history and an important commentary on warfare and violence as a whole, but it IS truly an idealized and romanticized version of war. It idolizes sacrifice and the suffering that was undertaken by the (real) main character. I think that's enough to edge We Were Soldiers in my book, as it is a brutally sober and straightforward look at one particular battle. Gibson is infamous for his "hollywoodization" and idealism when it comes to filmmaking, but in my personal experience as a veteran, I have FAR fewer reservations about this particular film as a message about war. Maybe it's broken clock syndrome, maybe it's something more, but in We Were Soldiers in particular, it strikes me as a particularly honest depiction of the horrors of war, up there with Saving Private Ryan, Fury, The Pacific, and Generation Kill as uniquely honest representations of the subject.
Of course, Hacksaw Ridge is still a phenomenal and stirring film, but as a veteran, it's hard to beat We Were Soldiers 😋
@@TheGoIsWin21 I wouldn't exactly say Hacksaw was a romanticized version of war. It may not be quite as raw as We Were Soldiers, but it was absolutely brutal. Nobody walked away from that with a fuzzy feeling about war.
When did your uncle die? I'm curious as I was born in Owensboro and have lived here all my life.
@@marks3750 I can't remember the exact date, but roundabouts 2016 or so.
"The Killing Fields" is an excellent Vietnam era movie that has largely been forgotten. It would be great to see you react to that one.
the song you hear as they board the helicopters is called SGT. McKenzie and comes from Scotland.
Yup it’s a World War I song
@@shawnmiller4781 Yes.
McKenzie stood his ground, protecting one of his comrades.
This film was overseen by multiple Veterans from that battle including the colonel and they all said it was dead accurate
Except the beginning, white kepis by French soldiers in jungle , they did not wear those in combat missions .
I think that was french foreign legion, If I remember correctly.That is their official headgear@@pete_lind
"I'm glad I died for my country." Said no one ever. Those I SAW who made this claim never left without fear and regret. Words of nationalism are the clumsy Langly fingerprints of propaganda in this fairy-tale. Still there are those who will continue to say this tripe. Mostly by those who never fought. Sometimes by liars who saw war and know what i am talking about.
Although the ending wasn't quite accurate there was no final stand as depicted and the battle went on for two more days and it ended in a draw rather than a victory for either
@@amigos2841LZ Albany isn't really the same engagement. Different American battalion, different NVA regiments, different area. Part of the same overall "Battle of Ia Drang" but really not the same battle.
To explain the french soldiers at the beginning, Vietnam during ww2 was a French colony named "french indochina", America had supplied the Vietnamese with weapons and arms to fight off the Japanese, which they did, but then immediately attacked the French military there (I'm not making any moral judgements), which concerned the Americans because of the spread of Communism in the northern half of the country.
Its important to note the Vietnamese soldiers in this battle would've been battled hardened veterans having fought the Japanese and the French.
American OSS agents who were with Ho Chi Minh during WW2 sent reports warning DC to not let the French return after the war, but our reps were outmaneuvered at the Potsdam conference by the Brits and French, to the worlds detriment.
Last year, they renamed Fort Benning to Fort Moore, in honor of both LTC Moore and his wife (who was responsible for forcing the Army to reform the casualty notification system after the events of the movie).
Honestly, a well deserved honoring for a great leader soldier on the frontline and a caring wife on the homefront.
My grandfather was an officer in the South Vietnamese Army during this war. He didn't speak much about his experience, probably because of trauma, but this movie does show the horror of the Vietnam War. Good movie but very sad war.
Very sad indeed
@@MaryCherryOfficial Yeah. Everything in this movie was pretty realistic. Those explosions from the fighter and attack aircraft were napalm, fire bombs pretty much. The only reason why the Americans won that battle was because of coordinated artillery and airstrikes.
Clint Eastwood produced and directed two films about the capture of Okinawa during WW2, one from the Japanese perspective, one from the American perspective. They are titled "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Fathers," respectively. They are from this century, so they are graphic.
Okinawa and Iwo Jima are 2 distinct different island
Both incredible movies
@@potatoman5742dude. Shhhh.
After the war General Moore worked on cleaning up the drug abuse problem and racial strife that were prevalent at the time in the 7th Division. His plan established Officer's Leadership Schools for company-grade officers and an NCO Leadership School for staff sergeants and below as well as issuing an "Equal Opportunity Policy". He backed up the policy with the promise to punish those leaders who discriminated based on race, ethnicity or creed. As a part of the reformation of division morale, he established several different athletic programs, including football, basketball, and boxing.
I apologize for this long post.
About 20yrs ago I got hired on at the Railroad here in the states. I just watched this movie and was blown away. While training for my job we had to unload a train of coal and my duties included me being in control room of the place to unload. While in there talking to people that worked there I brought up this movie. I was told to stop talking about because one of the older gentleman there fought in that war and didn't like talking about it. Out of respect I obliged.
Later that evening I was alone in the control room and the elder gentleman came in. Nothing was said for a few minutes. He then spoke to me and told me that he served under Col. Moore. He had the utmost respect for him. He also told me that him and his men were cut off overnight at some creekbed. I told him this movie was about him and his men!! He asked was it made well? I said yes sir! He said that he has a very hard time dealing with those memories. He wasn't treated very well upon returning from war back then. There was a moment of silence.... then with tears in his eyes he asked me did they portray him and his fellow soldiers in a bad light? I instantly had tears rolling down my face and said " No sir! It was brutal but honest. You can hold your head up! You and your men were soldiers and it was one of the best Vietnam movies I've seen." He said thank you, and asked if I thought he could handle watching it? I said I can't answer that. Then I thanked him for his service. After a moment of silence he started out the door and without looking back he said quietly " Thank you. "
I'll never forget that night....
@@tvdroid22 none the matter, it did happen
My father served in Vietnam from the spring of 1971 - 1972. He was a crewman on an AC-130 Gunship. The scene at the end of this movie where the taxi pulled up in front of the house bringing Colonel Moore home was the experience my family had. We knew he was coming home, but we didn’t know exactly when. We were getting ready for school one morning and a yellow cab pulled up in front of our house. 52 years ago and it’s like it happened this morning. A week later and the Ford Country Squire was loaded up and we were on to the next base.
Last of the Mohicans. You need to see it.
The idea of camouflage is to blend in with the colors of your surroundings which also helps break up your body outline even in daylight like a chameleon. You'd be amazed how close to or little a person looks like their surroundings can fool the human or animal eye.
“You know this whole camouflage thing doesn’t work very well…….. You go in the jungle make a statement………If you going to fight….CLASH!!!!”
Mr Leo……fashion consultant to the US Army
War movies and scenes I can handle. But the telegram scene gets me every time. That's the true horror of war. Colonel Moores wife led the fight to have the chaplain Corp deliver these messages
14:22 the US military is one of the most diverse organizations in America. I did 20 years in the Air Force and had the pleasure to serve with people of every race, religion and sexual orientation that I consider all my brothers.
Now but that wasn't always
@@Milner62 no wonder, Americans constituted +/- 90% of the population throughout it's 400 year history. The ongoing demographic and cultural change started only a few decades ago.
If you're watching movies about the Vietnam War, Mary, you might want to consider seeing "Danger Close: Battle of Long Tan." It's an Australian war film about a major engagement between an ANZAC unit and a NVA battalion, making it very similar to "We Were Soldiers." I figured with you being Australian you might be interested.
I second that.
I third that!
Danger Close is criminally underrated. I am from North America and it’s basically an unknown movie despite being one of the best war movies I have seen.
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Mary...or watch gallipoli...it's an Australian movie with Mel gibson in it..it's about the Australians fighting in turkey during ww1
the actress who plays mel's wife in the movie, is called Madeleine Stowe, Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora (born August 18, 1958)[1] is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her role in the 1987 crime-comedy film Stakeout. She went on to star in the films Revenge (1990), Unlawful Entry (1992), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Blink (1993), 12 Monkeys (1995), The General's Daughter (1999), and We Were Soldiers (2002). For her role in the 1993 independent film Short Cuts, she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
It was the ARVN, the South Vietnamese army that fought against the NVA that lost most of the M-16s still there today. Many of them were just dropped in panic, equiped by the US, they were not a solid fighting force, thus the S. Viet Govt were more then happy to have the US to come in to help them stop the communists.
Yeah, that seemed to be totally lost on Mary that America was there to 'save' the South from the North, but it was pretty obvious that she was more sympathetic towards the communist Vietnamese for some reason.
Also, the M16's when first came out were prone to jamming and had all sorts of problems. US soldiers just ditched them
Glad to trade you some ARVN rifles. Never been fired and only dropped once.
I served in that very unit, albeit in the '80's, but we were well educated on the history of the 7th Cavalry, specifically 1/7th Cavalry, my unit. 2/7 Cavalry was stationed in South Korea, in the '80's. I don't know if they're still there. We were an elite Air Scout/Cavalry battalion.
Those units are now in Texas and assigned again to the 1st Cavalry Division. I served as a helicopter pilot in 1st Cavalry from 2004-2011. “Snakeshit” actually came and talked with us several times about his experiences.
My dad was lucky in the fact that the USMC let him stick around until a few weeks after I was born before he was shipped out. He got to Vietnam just in time for the Tett Offensive. He never talked about combat with me other than to tell me what weapon he carried over there, the M79 grenade launcher, which earned him the nickname of Thumper. He had several stories about his time there, and some were terrifying, but the closest to a combat story was a guy he knew was on guard duty in a sandbagged observation post (OP) and just disappeared one night. Several days later he came crawling back into camp with his rifle slung over his shoulder and his right arm being carried in his left. He’d been pulled out of the trench by a tiger and dragged into the jungle.
the Sergeant Major in this film was played perfectly.
I worked for about a year with a guy who was a helicopter pilot in that group the movie is about... it was around the time this movie came out. It was pretty amazing to talk to him about what he was willing to talk about but he was seriously messed up. He was on some fairly heavy meds and we could tell when he forgot to take them (and helped remind him to take them).
30:53 My dad was in a Broken Arrow type of scenario. He told me he and his Ranger unit were at a forward base surrounded by north Vietnam troops.
Compounding the horror of the situation was that the Viet Cong were marching local villagers in front of them. Dad said he had no choice but to fire into the oncoming human wave no matter the age of the people. Eventually air support was called in to firebomb the VC. He told me “If not for the Navy dropping napalm on those people, I wouldn’t be here talking to you now.”
Dad was proud of his service. But he also didn’t make light of the horrific things that he saw or did.
What I love about this movie is that you see from the Vietnamese side of the war as well as the Americans. And it shows that the commanders (not the generals) truly hate the needless slaughter of war.
Just found the channel from this video. As the nephew of a man who fought with (then) Col Moore at Ia Drang, I want to thank you for watching this video. As a Vet myself, thank you for not forgetting those who keep us all free and safe.
Well done, Mary. This is my favorite too of the Vietnam War movies I have seen. I love that you are watching this while on your travels through Vietnam learning about it from the people of that country. I was born in 1960 and grew up with this war on the tv every night on the news. I had several older family members who served and were shaped by their experiences there. I registered for the draft, but by the time I graduated high school that war was over. It was still though a big part of my formative years growing uo. Thank you for sharing this one.
No, Vietnam wasn’t the first one to be documented. Photography goes back to the Civil War in the 1860s.
Lot of stuff from the Crimean war as well
The grenade that you asked was an “acid bomb” was a white phosphorus grenade. White phosphorus or “Willy Pete” as it’s often referred to, will burn continuously at an incredibly high temperature which is why the one soldier was using his bayonet to remove it from the other soldier’s face
WP burns on contact with oxygen.
There was a episode of mash where they have to operate on a guy with it in his wounds and they do it underwater to keep it aware from the oxygen and infighting
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My only issue with the story is the timeline that families actually do receive the messages. It is portrayed here in the movie that it is almost instant that as soon as a Soldier died, that the families are notified. It takes no less than 24 and no more than 48 to process a dead soldier.
The actor who played the PANV commander was blacklisted from the film industry in Vietnam after working on this movie. He even had his passport confiscated, but a lot of backlash in the US led to the Vietnamese government restoring his passport. He ended up moving to the US, afterward.
In his later years, General Moore met and befriended General Nguyen Huu An, the Vietnamese commander at Ia Drang. General Nguyen welcomed him and complimented U.S. troops in the war, saying they were courageous.
Not everyone of course, but there's a number of stories of U.S veterans returning to Vietnam to meet their Vietnamese counterparts. A lot of these times, they bonded nearly immediately and started sharing war stories they hadn't told their wives or families. My uncle (he first went in the 1990s) felt that even though they needed a translator to talk, they were like "lost comrades of sorts" since they shared many of the same experiences as the common American soldier and that was why he was more open with them than with his wife about the war. In some ways, he was more comfortable and relaxed in the Vietnamese veterans' presence than at home. He said that before, he would sometimes wonder what the opposing soldiers were like, and hearing that many were just regular people and not diehard communists made him open to visiting Vietnam. By his own admission, he thinks it's one of the best choices he ever made.
Just to correct you on 2 things you’re mistaken about.
1. Rambo wasn’t fake. The character John Rambo was based off a very real WW2 American soldier named Audie Murphy who is one of the most decorated soldiers in the history of the United States. He was credited with 241 confirmed kills. After the war he went on to have a two decade acting career.
2. The North Vietnamese weren’t defending their land, they were actively invading and slaughtering the South Vietnamese, mostly civilians, who wouldn’t convert and claim communism. The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were evil and the South Vietnamese asked the US to help stop the spread of that evil. After the US forced North Vietnam to sign a ceasefire and admit defeat at the Paris Peace Accords, the North shifted away from their savage tactics against civilians which made the world think they were turning a corner into peacetime. That’s why 3 years after the US pulled their troops out of Vietnam, the North pulled off the Fall of Saigon because it was a sneak attack on the South Vietnamese army that came out of the blue and caught the world by surprise.
Communism is an evil practice and evil can never be dead enough.
The contrast between the fighting at night and day is best summed up in the quote "we ruled the day they ruled the night", The Vietnam were very good at night time fighting after having so many years of conflicts, I like how the ending shows that Although it became an American war the result was still going to happen but at a much greater cost in lives. This is one of the few that shows both sides of the war.
Just reminded me of the Billy Joel song with that line. “Goodnight Saigon” is a fantastic song.
Fun fact: My mom use to own a dry cleaners by where this movie was filmed, and she actually did the washing/dry cleaning for all the dirt and "blood" spoiled uniforms used for this movie. They even asked my mom if she would like to be in the film as one of the wives in the living room scene but she turned it down because she was too embarrassed.
Nothing fun about that.
I agree. This is my favorite Vietnam War movie, in that it's not an action movie or a movie about some strange story. It's about men who went to war and their families.
Yeah it’s exactly what I want. I don’t need a warped up fictional/book adaptation of heart of darkness like apocalypse now. I just want to see the real stories or as close to reality as possible.
It takes a lot for a movie to make emotional, but the scene with Jimmy Nakayama after he was burned really got to me!
Girl I'm loving the corn rows!
There are 2 Vietnam War movies one is by Disney. Yes Disney made a Vietnam War movie called Operation Dumbo Drop. The other movie (not by disney) is called The Iron Triangle. That movie gives more of the Vietnamese perspective. Mostly the VC.
Hello Mary if you are looking for a great Vietnam war movie I recommend to react “The Deer Hunter “ it’s a master piece
I love your reaction. And yes, this is one of the best depictions of that time. It does show the different perspectives that other movies lack. Great work.
Joseph (Joe) Galloway who wrote the book is the reporter that was invaded with Col. Moore and his men in this battle.
Lt Herrick tells his platoon Sgt to make sure the enemy don't get the radio codes before he dies. The phone is a field telephone, he can stretch a line back to the tunnels, it's very basic but can't be tapped.
It can but you have to splice into the cable.
Also there are setups to use the phone as a control head for a radio
A lot of great actors in this . . . plus Taylor Momsen, Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) Despite what you might think Many of us are proud of our service. At 18 or 19 we were not thinking about the politics of either side . I fought along side Australian troops also. VERY brave men and I think I speak for most of us we didn't fight for our country we fought for each other and the way we were treated when we came home had a worse effect on me that the combat did. Thank you for this and God bless you.
Small correction to something you've said a few times. Vietnam was not a conscript war, at least on the American side. About 25% of the troops were draftees. WW2 saw over 60% of the US forces were draftees. Also a draftee was not automatically a rifleman, they went into jobs the military chose based solely on the test performance and real world skills. Many spent their time as mechanics, clerks, cooks etc and almost never were under enemy fire. Contrary to the myth pushed by our education system, most of the men in vietnam were voluntary enlistment, and many of them enlisted specifically to be a rifleman.
Australia had conscription. The guy I interviewed for my masters degree, he was conscripted
Conscription escalated towards the end of the war, as they ran out of professional soldiers. It was also a part of the collapse of the morale of the US forces, no one wanted to be there in the end.
I know 58,000 is a lot of people that died in the Vietnam war and I'm not putting them down at all. Putting that number in perspective, in the American Civil War there were 51,000 Americans killed in Gettysburg in 3 days.
N Vietnamese, S Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Laotians and Cambodians. The French left in 1954. The Americans came, but with Australians, NZ, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan and S Koreans too.
Many Vietnamese people actually found refuge in the USA.
Several years ago, I attended a Memorial Day ceremony at a cemetery near me. There were several former South Vietnamese soldiers in their uniforms there to remember and honor the American servicemen who died in the Vietnam War.
Col.Moore's prayer reminds me of Gen Patton's quote "Make the other S.O.B. die for his country".
In all seriousness hun, great reaction and I love the hair
One war movie from the German prespective (WWII) is: Das Boot (The Boat). It is probably the greatest submarine movie ever. Also I really like Thirteen Days (Cuban Missle Crisis) and what many consider the best war movie ever (and most distrubing) is a Soviet directors film called "Come And See" (WWII). Also my personal favorite war film and a philisophical look at war, good vs. evil and life itself: The Thin Red Line (WWII).
Luv your reaction Mary Cherry! Thanks for sharing ❤️💛🍒
Just as a historic note During the Vietnam War, about two-third of American troops were volunteered, a 3rd were conscripted. 70% of the US casualties in Vietnam were professional volunteer regulars. I am not sure but I believe most of the men Hal Moore lead into the Battle of Ian Drang were regular army and volunteers. Throughout 1963 President Kennedy went back and forth on backing a coup against Diem and eventually went to support a coup but by then forces were already at work overthrowing him. Also why would there not be Korean, Japanese and other Asians in the US army? Strange comment. Also there is the South Vietnam soldiers fighting for their nation against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.
While in Vietnam, you should watch: Danger Close, the battle of Long Tan. It’s about Aussies fighting in Vietnam.
This movie and Blackhawk Down were the last two war movies filmed and edited before 9/11.
My friend was in the film and I asked him how he knew he was accurately portraying his character and he said he had his number and called him.
Both of my parents, at the time as Filipino nationals, served tours in Vietnam with the US military in the late 60's (dad was an enlisted sailor in the Navy; mom was a commissioned officer and nurse in the Army). Both are currently receiving disability benefits for issues directly related to exposure from Agent Orange... as are a good number of veterans who returned from the conflict.
This battle, and the film made around it, encapsulated this conflict, and the toll taken of those on the battlefields, in the field hospitals (like my mom), back home, etc., regardless of sides.
As a US Army veteran, my mom has since returned to Vietnam on two different occasions to visit, remember, reflect, etc.
I can't watch this without crying. Every single time.
I grew up as an Army brat. My Dad met Hal Moore, and served with his son about 10-12 years after this battle. While watching this movie, I can see how much Hal Moore was an inspiration to my Dad, as his leadership style is very similar. A lot of the home front scenes also really hit home for me. Mom held lots of those wives' meetings to teach new Army wives how to live on base, and how to live as an Army spouse. I can definitely see her taking on the duty of handing out the death notices.
Madeline Stowe has been in other war movies. Look up "Last of The Moheikens" With Daniel Day Lewis. Madeline Stowe Played Cora Monroe, Daughter of Colonel Monroe and Female romantic Lead to Nathaniel (Hawkeye) The Daniel Day Lewis character. The war was The French & Indian War Period on the American Continent that took place in the 50 years before the American Revolution. She was a very dynamic character in that as well. You have some of the same qualities she does.
The best film in my opinion with Madeleine Stowe in it is The Last of the Mohicans. Great movie. Movie takes place during the French and Indian War.
The movie is based on a book:
The cover features Lt. Rick Rescorla, a British-American Vietnam War veteran who served for both countries during the war. Rescorla was uncomfortable about being portrayed as a war hero and chose not to read it when he saw that its cover featured a combat photograph of him. When he learned that the book was being made into a film starring Mel Gibson, he told his wife Susan that he had no intention of seeing it, as he felt uncomfortable with anything that portrayed him or other survivors as war heroes, commenting, "The real heroes are dead."[5] Rescorla later served as the director of security for Morgan Stanley and is credited with saving nearly 2,700 lives during the September 11 attacks, dying in the process.[6]
Wonderful that you are learning the culture of Vietnam’s amazing people to provide some context as you watch this movie!
Very glad that you reacted to this movie! And FYI, it was based on the book, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young by Hal Moore and Joe Galloway.
Great reaction, Mary. Thank you for sharing it with us. God bless. :)
Check out the film The Thin Red Line. It is a fantastic film about the WW2 battle for the Pacific island called Guadalcanal. It has nearly every major male Hollywood star of the 1990’s in it. It shows the beauty and brutality of war.
That film is one of my favorite anti-war films, and it truly was a breathtaking piece of cinema as well. To this day, I still prefer it over Saving Private Ryan.
@@white-noisemaker9554 it is better than Saving Private Ryan. It stays with you.
In Somalia I had to help carry a buddy to mortuary affairs at Mogadishu Airport. This was a damned difficult thing to do. It was worse for some of the guys in my unit who were back in the U.S. who had to deliver the news to his wife and daughter.
Notifying families of the death of their loved one is an extremely difficult task, which is carried out by a member of the casualty's unit. During my career there were a few occasions that I had to inform a family that a member had been wounded. However, I'm grateful that I've never had to don my dress uniform and show up on a family doorstep to deliver the message that a loved one had been killed in action.
It was twenty years before I was able to open up to my wife and tell her some of the things I saw and did while deployed overseas (I took part in the '91 Gulf War, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan). Difficult to explain to a child what a war is, and why I had to leave to go to war. One of my (step)daughters at age seven asked me if I had ever killed anybody. I lied to her at the time. I never wanted her and her sister to know that a bout me. I feared that they wouldn't see me as the same man they came to love.
Mary I thought this was the best reaction I've seen of yours. I think you really 'got' the movie and had some really good insights, including Hal Moore's prayer, basically it's them or us, that's the way it has to be in war. Not every reactor understands that. Hall Moore was the kind of man you would want leading you into battle-my two favorite moments were when, hopelessly outnumbered and about to be overrun, he told his men "Boys, we're gonna win this fight". They knew he meant it. He had supreme confidence in his men and in their training. Then, after the screwed-up napalm strike, he told the RT operator to keep calling them in, he was saving their lives. He knew his trooper, wracked with guilt, needed to hear that. Slight correction, Moore was a Lt. Colonel, not a lieutenant, a much higher rank, which is why they tried to pull him out, they didn't want the bad publicity of an officer of that rank being killed. Also, the knives attached to the rifles are called bayonets.
Australia has some really fine war films. "Danger Close" is a true story about Australian troops fighting a battle in Vietnam. "Gallipoli" is another Mel Gibson film in a true story about Australian troops in that WW1 battle. "Breaker Morant" is a true story about Australian troops made scapegoats while fighting for the Empire in the Boer War. As you're Australian I highly recommend you see these films at some point.
If you're looking to learn more, Ken Burns' documentary on the war is astoundingly good, and balanced in its perspective. Many interviews with Vietnamese vets.
It is fantastic. It tells a lot of truths about the war
Two other Vietnam movies to watch are
* The Deer Hunter
* Casualties of War
The Deer Hunter will haunt your dreams for all time. Casualties of War centers around a specific war horror not typically portrayed in other war movies. Check them out.
Mel Gibson has Starred in and Directed some of the best War movies. We Were Soldiers, Gallipoli, as an Aussie this is a must watch! Braveheart, The Patriot, Hacksaw Ridge. It's great too how they are all from different Wars in History and all based on true Stories.
True Story is doing a lot of heavy lifting with Braveheart. It's pretty much a fantasy with some historical names thrown in.
Some of history is a bit questionable.
This movie had Moore as a technical advisor to keep Mel in line
The Patriot and Braveheart aren't very historical at all. The use some famous names from these conflicts, and keep their outcomes the same, but, at least for The Patriot the borderline N@z! style war crimes shown never happened.
But totally agree that Hacksaw Ridge and this film are at least 80 percent accurate. Many characters are composites of multiple people, and some events happened at other times/locations.
I was training with some elements of 7th Cavalry few years back in international training. Moore's legacy still lives strong among them. The Killing Fields... that movie is brutal master piece. It rough watching Mary. i hope you enjoy your travels and safe traveling.
39:30 it also showed the kind of man that Lt Col Moore was that he found a way to send a letter and the journal to the Vietnamese soldier’s significant other.
This film was not shot anywhere in Asia, but amazingly enough, in Georgia and California.
If you looking for another Vietnam war movie, you should react to Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan. Where a little over 100 Australian and New Zealand soldiers were outnumbered by the Viet Cong. Based on a true story.
16:27 The song was written by a scotsman Joseph MacKenzie in honour of his great grandfather “Sgt. MacKenzie” after his wife had died. Sgt. MacKenzie was killed during ww1 when he tried to defend one of his badly injured fellow soldiers during hand to hand fighting in the trenches. He was injured before and send back to England. His last photo was taken on the steps of the hospital. It hung framed at home. The writer of this actually a poem said that according to accounts there was a fighting in the trench with Germans and when a friend was seriously injured. He stand his ground beside him until he was killed. At the same day his great grand mother and grandmother heard the photograph fall to the floor and his great grand mother said my bonnie Charlie is dead. And a few days later this news was officially received. The photo of his great grandfather had given the writer the strenght to overcome the grief of his wifes passing.
I like Mary's corn rows! Looks great!
Man you look amazing, The braids shows more of your face off. Beautiful!! And this was a good movie, And props for crawling through them tunnels too.
This last of our Vietnam war movies is a lot like our first: John Wayne's "The Green Berets", in that they focus more on the positives than negatives, even tho' neither were as popular as others. 🤔
Wayne’s film is a clear propaganda operation while it was happening. And I consider it a bit on the campy side.
Luckily you had Moore and other folks there to keep Gibson in line.
But to me the whole delivery of t he telegrams back home stuff was distracting ro the story of t battle
@@shawnmiller4781 Our U.S. government uses tax-payers $ to cover ##% of costs of military movies if they are ##% "positive", to increase enlistment #'s: Green Berets & We Were Soldiers were the only 'Nam movies that got $.
The Green Berets is also the only movie about Vietnam made during the Vietnam war
You should try to get in contact with the "Movie Munchies" a reaction channel hosted by 3 young Vietnamese ladies. Chi, Hella and ?. They are very entertaining and although Chi's grasp of English is somewhat tenuous, their mastery of American profanity is solid!😀😆😂
Great reaction Mary. So very cool that you are able to see Vietnam
Many of the explosions were from aircraft dropping napalm canisters. They were long aluminum canisters that tumbled when dropped. Upon hitting the ground they ruptured & the napalm was spread out as it ignited. Napalm was highly effective when dropped on tunnel entrances, if detected. The napalm would burn all of the oxygen out of the tunnel for quite a distance. NVA & Viet Cong soldiers would die from suffocation if not actually burned by the flame.
from a combat veteran its so much more worse when you cant see the threat, if it happens and you or they were slow on the trigger its easier in the moment, but at the end of the day it all feels the same.
Another amazing reaction and your hair looks so fantastic Mary ❤❤😁😁.
20:53 that is a white phosphorus grenade. It is designed to be hot enough to melt through metal, destroying equipment.
Notifications are done by an officer, and a chaplain if there's one available. It's an additional duty that has to be taken on by officers at each duty station. I've done that job and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. After 24 years in the Army and several combat deployments as a medic, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
One of the things I absolutely love about this movie is that it shows the humanity and care for their troops by leaders on both sides of the conflict. The Vietnamese Colonel cares for his men just as LTC Moore does, and speaks to them as a leader. It's not some one-sided thing where the Vietnamese are just shown as "the enemy."
We study this battle extensively as soldiers and leaders in the U.S. Army, both for its leadership lessons and for the strategic and tactical failures.
How do you hold it together? You do it because you have to. The moment requires it and you fall to the level of your training. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, and it keeps you alive. Afterwards, however, it destroys you if you don't deal with it properly.
There is a Vietnam War movie about an Australian unit. I forget what it's called, but it was really good. I'm going to look it up.......Okay, the movie is (danger close) the battle of long Tan! Such a good movie and it will allow you to see it from a perspective other than the United States.
Thank you for your reaction, the song you mentioned at the start is called Sgt MacKenzie - A Lament, it was made by a grandson who wrote it for his Grandfather who died in WW1. I played it at my fathers funeral, he was a WW2 veteran. Here is the words of the song that is sang with a Scottish accent.
Lay me down
In the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down
In the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone
When they come
I will stand my ground
Stand my ground
I'll not be afraid
Thoughts of home
Take away my fear
Sweat and blood
Hide my veil of tears
Once a year
Say a prayer for me
Close your eyes
And remember me
Never more
Shall I see the sun
For I fell to a German's gun
Lay me down
In the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down
In the cold, cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Where before many more have gone
Awesome reaction as always Mary. I like the new hairstyle. It looks great.
No it doesn't.
@@toshtao1 Agreed.
The job of the sergeant major (the angry old guy) is to be the “designated bad guy”
You need to watch Band Of Brothers!!!