I read the novel quite a while back but I don't recall anything indicating that "The General's Daughter" was based on true events.

Kind of like Texas Chainsaw Massacre was "based on a true story"? (i.e. butchered to the point that the original story is virtually unrecognizable)
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It was based on a novel, that I heard itself was
loosely
based on a true story!

I've read on several sites that's it's based on a true story. Here's one:
http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/general.html

I came on-line just to find out this question. Is it true or memorex?
Frankly speaking, tghe only reason I went to see this movie in the theater when it first came out was because of the return of Madeline Stowe, who had taken a hiatus from movie making. Great looking gal, pretty good actress when given a good part, etc. To think of this ending, where they want to make you think its a true story, well, I find it completely disingenious; typical for such crummy movie.
Over-acting reigned supreme in this movie. Including Travolta and Stowe.

"At the end it came up with some footnotes, and normally these are put when it is a true account."
You mean like in Animal House, American Graffitti and Kelly's Heroes?

Maybe it was an extreme composite with great dramatic license of all the sexual assault cases that are reported on military academies and with active duty personel.
AMERICANS AREN'T MORE VIOLENT, WE'RE JUST BETTER SHOTS!

This was not a true story. It was based on a book by Neslon DeMille.

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Thanks for clearing that up
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist

i doubt it was a true story.
But, its possible, and if something like this happened, im sure you would hear about it.