Watched "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon. Should be required viewing for

[LuckyLib]

every American -- our tax dollars are paying for the Iraq travesty, and the personal cost should be something that we all have to witness.

[Suich]

1. I watched it last week and

cried all the way through. I agree; it should be required viewing.

[Dappleganger]

2. I love Kevin Bacon.

That is all.


:smoke:

[knowbody0]

3. lovely and amazing film

I agree everyone should watch. that scene with the other gentlemen accompanying a transport, who was the dead soldier's brother. that grabbed me so hard.

[pacalo]

4. My first thought when I saw it months ago was that it seems to have been made as

an in-your-face retort to Bush's nervy ban of all "coming home" photography. It was quite the eye-opener in regard to the extreme attention, care, & respect given to the deceased's casket from start to finish. It's such a very impressive & loving tribute to the fallen heroes that it leaves no question in one's mind why the chickenhawk "commander-in-chief" was too cowardly to allow public viewing.

[dflprincess]

5. Perhaps it should be required viewing for any president that thinks

sending troops to fight never ending wars is a good idea. That and the first half hour or so of "Saving Private Ryan" - through the scene where the mother sees the Army cars coming up her drive way.

[Captain Hilts]

6. I'd like to see it. I've been to quite a few funerals at Arlington. Sad. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I cried like a baby when they were preparing the bodies at Dover AFB.

In fact, just thinking about it now brings tears to my eyes.

The care and respect the good people at Dover showed their fallen comrades-in-arms and the way it was portrayed was more than I could bear. The only movie scene(s) that have ever affected me so deeply were from the opening twenty minutes or so of "Saving Private Ryan". I'm sure anyone who has served, or anyone who has been so unfortunate as to have lost a loved one who served can understand what I mean.

My little mountain community lost one of it's precious young a few years ago and to this very day it's a hard thing for people to talk about. His flight home was described just as the last flight of Lance Corporal Phelps was portrayed. I had read the description, written by a fellow Marine Aviator well before seeing "Taking Chance", and that brought the evils of war home all the more forcefully.

If you have the opportunity, see this movie.

Read about 1st Lt. Jared Landaker here:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/03/the_last_flight/comments/page/2/

[Lost Jaguar]

8. "Survivor Assistance"

At the end of my Dad's long career as an infantry officer, he was ordered to provide what they called in the Vietnam era, "survivor assistance." That's when you notify the next of kin, arrange the funeral and posthumous honors, etc. It was the most difficult assignment in his twenty-seven year career. All Chickenhawks should spend a day doing that. Let them see the grief in the loved ones' eyes, and then think about sending their own child to a battlefield.