Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.I.s are doomed to have a past--iridescent memories of the blue Pacific or the wife back home--but no future. And Malick, like a god who made the world so lovely and life so harsh, ornaments their ordeal splendidly. The film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave...
...Captain Dale Dye, U.S.M.C. (ret.), senior military adviser on Saving Private Ryan: "The guy could be, should have been, a professional soldier. He has the mind, the motivation, the spirit and the body to make a good officer. He's inquisitive and highly intelligent. Strip away the Hollywood crap and he's like Captain Miller: a common man in uncommon circumstances who rises to uncommon levels...
...creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue a soldier whose life is no more valuable than theirs, then shows us how honor can be wrested from absurdity by common decency and modest dutifulness...
Business School first-year Eleanor R. Fuqua applied for a single in the Soldier's Field Road apartments near the Allston campus when she received an HPRE brochure in her admissions package...
...chain, so goes the account, when the seven-year-old boy began to question rough, traditional training methods. These beatings, writes Monty, went on weekly for several years. Worse: during World War II, when Marvin worked as a policeman, Monty saw his father disarm a knife-wielding black soldier who was trying to hold up the Golden Dragon bar in Salinas and then beat the man to death...