Just watched a GREAT movie on HBO!

[southernleftylady]

It was called "A war at home" it stars martin sheen and Kathy bates Emilio Esteves(sp) and the girl from father of the bride ....it shows a family in the Vietnam era who's son gets a draft notice.. the son ask the father to give him money to go to Canada and the father said that its the sons honor at stake, that he has to go... so the son gets back and is totally messed up... he has flashbacks he is very violent and eventually the father says that he needs to leave .. he gives him a few hundred dollars to get him to wherever he wants to go and get a place...
well that sets the son off...
to make a very long (but very good) story short.. it was an EXCELLENT movie..
i wonder how many families are like this? back then and now? i mean how many soldiers come back alive but really never come back the same???
it was such a moving story.. it gave me the chills and i cried... those poor soldiers :(

[T Town Jake]

1. Haven't seen the movie, but it sounds...

...like a great one. I'll try to catch it the next time it airs on HBO.

[Sugarbleus]

2. There was a caller on my local radio the other night who

said his neighbors son came back and had changed so much he was afraid of him now.

He told the story of living next door to this "boy" while he grew up; how the "boy" played with his kids and all went to the same school etc. How nice he was. The caller said he had his g.kids over when this soldier was home from Iraq at his families home there and the man said the once nice "boy" had so seriously changed that he was afraid to let his g.kids be around him.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD. And so said the caller too. :(

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. and now, thanks to the chickenhawks

more families have this tragedy to reenact.

[pretzel4gore]

4. what about tim mcveigh?

how in hell they got away with that, after mcveigh identified hate radio as his inspiration (and his iraq war 'murders' as basis for original distrust/fear of the US Gov)....rush limbaugh et al are STILL misrepresenting the facts nationwide, when they should have been held to account 10 years ago, for lying to tim...remember how it was the wingnuts media foxnews etc who were eager eager to see mcveigh executed (which clinton gov. unfortunately carried out, this despite news 3000 documents kept from tim's defense!)
the average citizen has no idea of the injustice that is routinely promulgated in their name....

[0007]

5. I thought it was terrific also.

I indeed like Kathy Bates. Never seen her in a film that I didn't like.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. There's THOUSANDS of those men

who returned from Nam...never to be the same. I know some. Very, very sad. :( I'll have to catch the movie the next time they air it.

[southernleftylady]

7. its on again now!

[southernleftylady]

8. kick

[Lerkfish]

9. sadly, its not just a movie....

I was born in 1958 so grew up during vietnam. Too young to be drafted myself, but related to many cousins and knew many younger siblings of those sent to war...and not all returned, in any kind of shape.

I remember listening to a coworker retelling his 'nam experiences....he said something like:


"so, my whole platoon was running along a ridge while we were being strafed. I was the first in line and ran like hell. when I got across, I looked back behind me and I was all alone. Nobody else made it."

somebody else in the room said "you know, every vet I talk to has a similar story about they barely escaped getting killed" as if to dismiss the guy's story.

He just turned to the idiot and said " because those are the ONLY guys you'll get to talk to. The others ones can't.).