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a5c7b9f00b In a place soon to be known as &quot;The Valley of Death&quot;, in a football field-sized clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and four hundred young troopers from the newly formed 1/7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division were surrounded by two thousand North Vietnamese soldiers dug into the tunnel warren mountainside. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history, and is portrayed here as the signal encounter between the American and North Vietnamese armies. This movie is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to, and love for, one another. In 1965, as America prepares to send its troops into South Vietnam&#39;s green Central Highlands, the devoted commander and seasoned paratrooper, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Moore, prepares to lead the young men of the First Battalion of the Seventh Air Cavalry into the war&#39;s first major ground battle. Hopelessly outnumbered, four hundred soldiers against a North Vietnamese infantry division of two thousand men, Moore&#39;s soldiers will fight in Ia Drang Valley, or the Valley of Death, during three days of inferno. This movie displays the courage and the dignity of few men on the fierce battlefield, as well as the pain and suffering of all those who were left behind alive but, nonetheless, wounded. The Viet-Nam War was not about one man, nor of the 58,000 we lost or even the Million America killed, it was more. The movie is called &quot; We Were Soldiers &quot; and it depicts the true story as recalled by Lt. Col. Harold Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. The Viet-Nam conflicted had already been waging between the French Government and the Vietnamese people, before it became a U.S. problem. In 1965, in a place called &#39;The Valley of Death&#39; a company of French soldiers were ambushed and massacred in that valley. In that same year, Lt. Col.Hal Moore, Sgt.Maj.Basil Plumley (Sam Elliott) and Maj.Crandall (Greg Kinnear) and his men are given the task of going to Viet-Nam and assessing the military capacity, veracity and fortitude of the Viet-Cong soldier. Despite being a Veteran combat soldier, Moore and his skilled Air Calvary arrive in Landing Zone Ray and are immediately engaged by a highly seasoned and well disciplined armed force. For the next three days, Moore and his men are attacked, surrounded and nearly wiped out by veteran commander Lt. Nguyen Huu An (Duong Don) who proves an intelligent and worthy opponent for the American Commander. Barry Pepper plays Joe Galloway a courageous Photographer who captures the dark, dramatic action and all it&#39;s savage brutality on film. This film is a solid well-acted and beautifully choreographed action film which displays both sides of the battle with gut-wrenching reality. Be prepared for War at it&#39;s most horrendous. The heart of this movie is the fact the director includes not only the war-zone at it&#39;s most bestial, but the heart-ripping sorrow of the Women who loved one&#39;s are being butchered while they receive a telegram informing them of their loss. This is not a film for the faint heart, but for anyone who&#39;s brave enough for a Real movie of the Viet-Nam War. ***** I enjoyed the resolve of Mel Gibson&#39;s character in this film and the fact that it celebrates one of the great U.S. victories in the field before the traitorous demonstrators &quot;back home&quot; took it upon themselves to put the handcuffs on our freedom fighters. (They are squarely to blame for the fall of South Vietnam to the bloody Communists.) Getting back to the film, I gave it 8 stars, but I was disappointed by the undercurrent of political correctness. Three major instances stick out like a sore thumb, but remain unaddressed by others. First, we have the united colors of Benetton represented in Moore&#39;s outfit, concerning which Moore gives a speech! Was this historically accurate? I doubt it. Second, Barry Pepper&#39;s character plays a reporter who is disgusted by war. I am a big fan of Barry&#39;s, but this character only succeeds in having us question the entire premise of this film. His presence leaves us confused about who the real heroes are. Third, the NVA are presented with a human touch, as if they are morally equivalent to Joe Soldier. This is ridiculous and sickening. The North Vietnamese Army was the weapon of an evil Communist regime that would overrun South Vietnam, killing, raping, and torturing its kind inhabitants. Do we present Hitler&#39;s SS in a similar light? Of course not, that would be anathema to the Hollywood Left. Overall, this film is a good flag-waving epic marred by a few disturbing and utterly curious elements. If the action is graphic and immediate, other aspects of the movie are inexcusably bad. When the VC soldier runs into the hollowed out tree, he checks the magazine in his AK-47, which was empty. He is pondering what he should do, when he fastens his bayonet on his rifle. His objective was likely to take out the Commanding Officer. But considering he had no ammo left, he ran the risk of dying trying to bayonet the Colonel or live and not complete his objective. This is done to make sure the rounds are properly seated in the magazine (so that the back end of the casing with the primer is flush against the back end of the mag). This reduces the risk of the weapon jamming. You can see Private Reiben do it in the opening scene of <a href="/title/tt0120815/">Saving Private Ryan (1998)</a> with a magazine for his BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) and Cowboy do it in <a href="/title/tt0093058/">Full Metal Jacket (1987)</a>.