Reply #18: I kind of agree with you too. [View All]

[saigon68]

But pose the following in friendly debate O.K.? :-)

Saving Private Ryan may have been hailed as showing the truth about the real horror of war.

But if it did, it didn't change the following from happening


Lena High School grad killed in Iraq

http://www.ocontocountyreporter.com/page.html?article=101706

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Oconto County Reporter

Pfc. Nichole Frye, 19, daughter of James and Lisa Frye of Hogsback Road, Town of Little River, became Oconto County's first casualty in Iraq on Monday, Feb. 16.

She died when a roadside bomb exploded near her convoy in Baqouba, Iraq, the Department of Defense reported. Three other military personnel were critically injured.

She had been in Iraq only 16 days, and had been called to active duty on Jan. 4, after the Christmas holidays. She was attached to the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion, Kalamazoo, Mich., but had been with Brown County-based 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion-----

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I was a combat photographer. I never saw or photographed someone in the act of having their face shot off. But I got to photograph dozens of corpses in all stages of dismemberment, including those who had been in the hot sun for more than 10 days.

Pictures are bad-- but for me the smell is worse.

But I digress sir.

My friend (who I trust) says the movie is pornographic violence---
I can't dispute him, any more than the creator of this "Masterpiece"

or in the immoral words of now retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in an opinion uttered the famous "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it."