Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stone, Dye is a decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...
...artillery attack in Apocalypse Now) and the detail wrong (Sylvester Stallone launching rockets with the radio button on a helicopter control stick) but an essential point of view was missing. "The story that needs to come out," Dye says, "is the human one: what happened to the people who fought...
...wrote Platoon. "Essentially what I wanted to say was, Remember. Just remember what that war was. Remember what war is. This is it. I wanted to make a document of this forgotten pocket of time. I felt Viet Nam was omitted from history books. Like a battle I fought in during the war: a lot of people got hurt that day, and it wasn't even listed as a battle by the Army, as if they didn't want to admit the casualties we suffered. The script I wrote is pretty much the one I shot ten years later...
...think there will be any effect," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "If you buy the books, the chalk and blackboards and slide show this year, you probably don't need them again next year." Administration officials claim, as the President has emphasized, that the war is best fought primarily with moral rectitude and inspirational leadership, and only secondarily with money...
What they say about him does not matter....He knows that the things tht really deserve to be fought for exist, he will spend his whole life finding them and defending them if he has to. He is sure Antoine would agree...