Restrepo
Recaps a year in the "Stan," for a company of Airborne Grunts. Slow in parts, but isn't war like that? Different than the preview, which was very melodramatic. Went with my wife, who fell asleep during the middle of the movie. We are both veterans, thus thought the movie was a good synopsis of soldiers' life on the line, but it is hard to put 15 months into 90 minutes. It would have been better to show life during most of field assignment called Operation Rock Avalanche, when the pain level was higher for these soldiers. Anything else in journalism has a political message, at least this did not. It was plain facts and witness to what happened. For that I am grateful. I am also grateful to have men like Capt. Dan Kearney, with boots on the ground, who desire to go in and correct the mistakes we've made. We all have to remember that war is made by the politicians to create a political result, and soldiers should obey their plans. But that's for Generals to decide. A GI's Story.