Dear America

I really enjoyed today's film. It was different from the others that we've seen in the sense that it wasn't exactly a movie. I liked that everything we saw was real and not re-enacted. Everything was calm and not as intense as we have seen in past movies.

I did noticed a lot of similarities between this film and the other ones we've seen. A few of the similar scenes include soldiers getting their head shaved, lighting houses on fires with a match and a scene where we see all the body bags. Another similarity was when someone said they were fighting for people who resented them being there. It was also interesting that Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall and Marvin Gaye's Whats Going On were included.

I think the letters home that were read really show individuality of the soldiers that we don't really see in the other movies. It shows another side of them and what they think as opposed to seeing them hiding in jungles and shooting all the time. The update of how many soldiers were in Vietnam each year showed how involved we were. In the other movies we've seen we just saw the one platoon and never really saw just how much more soldiers there were.