Bunch of cowards…
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sonofbeach-sheet — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 10:13 PM)
I felt sorry for Wolfe and what he was placed into. His main problem was he was inexperienced, did not fit the bill, and had no business out in the bush attempting to lead war-hardened troops. But yes, Barnes clearly intimidated him, especially when he was brushed off during the assignment of the troops to the ambush and after calling the wrong coordinates and getting his own men injured or killed. And of course he evaded responsibility declaring to the Captain he saw nothing and that the village chief was an NVA.
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horrorflicklover — 12 years ago(February 11, 2014 01:57 PM)
The people least worthy of respect in Platoon were the conservative whites not the "inner city punks".
Conservative whites? Are you serious? Because you knew what Bunny's politics were? And what about the likes of Junior? You're fooling yourself if you think that "inner city punk" was any more worthy of respect than those "conservative whites".
Don't drag political ideologies in to this. People like Bunny were sadistic bastards, and no political views were going to change that. This logic is no better than the people who talk about how "liberal" politicians are the reason that Detroit is so corrupt. All they prove is that they really don't know anything about politics.
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wylierichardson-966-922691 — 10 years ago(February 11, 2016 09:24 PM)
If you bone up on your history, you will learn that blacks DID fight in WWII - albeit in segregated units. Some black solider irreverently referred to themselves as "E.R.N." (Eleanor Roosevelt's N-words).
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stevekaczynski — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 02:12 AM)
They did fight in WW2 although, yes, in segregated units and in most cases they were not in combat units but in supply services, ammunition trucking, that kind of thing. I believe about 1,000 African Americans were killed in the war, with the largest single death toll being in the Port Chicago disaster when over 200 of them were among servicemen killed in a massive explosion while loading ammunition onto a ship in California. African Americans in the US armed forces were treated rather like the Japanese treated their Korean soldiers - as second class citizens (Korea was a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945).
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Bodangles1 — 12 years ago(February 16, 2014 04:00 PM)
matagt1983 replied Jan 17, 2014
Exactly. People saying otherwise are the same out of shape waste of space that think they know about athletes. To say they are cowards while lives can be taken in a split second is a joke. Go play call of duty some more. -
20thCentury — 12 years ago(February 24, 2014 04:28 PM)
It might 'seem' that way if you have a shallow way of thinking and believed the actions of a couple characters to be emblematic of how the majority was. People wanted out of the war because they knew it was wrong - even president johnson believed that too, just before he committed troops there. He was the REAL coward because he was afraid he wouldn't be elected in '64 and might be impeached if he didn't act "tough on communism" as the loud farts who were over military age always roared. This is revealed in an audio recording recently released of him calling around to get opinions on what he should do about vietnam. O'neil would be the tough guy up front type but coward in reality, while others were open about their feelings. You might say the leutenant was a coward too because he was scared - but that doesn't dictate if you would fight when attacked. And stabbing yourself is pretty hard to do - that takes some courage. O'neil couldn't have done it.
Its accurate to say the US didn't achieve their goals in vietnam because americans weren't committed to something they believed to be wrong. Its total ignorant beep to blurt that it was due to cowardice.
"Death, has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
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darythg — 10 years ago(April 30, 2015 08:40 PM)
Does it matter if you lost or not? you destroyed the country with your massive bombardments and destroyed the next several generations of children because you sprayed chemcicals over the jungle. You still see misformed children being born because america was trying to bring their freedom.
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michaeluk26 — 11 years ago(June 09, 2014 04:30 AM)
You have obviously not experienced any combat. O'Niel was all alone and had he not hidden he would have been killed. Remember, there was no such thing as being a coward in Vietnam. Francis, and most others, did NOT want to be there and realized they were fighting for nothing. Junior is a coward but combat can make you freeze up one day, and do some Medal of Honor heroics the next day. Its petrifying. I would not wish it on anyone.
Haters gonna hate