I have enough VietNam "footage" running in my dreams. I do NOT watch movies about it. Ground grunts had it much worse than I did; I at least had hot meals and clean sheets at night. My job was scary enough; I'd not want to add leeches and land mines to it.
I will opine this: as graphic and outrageous as some war movies are, they cannot touch reality.
People often tell me they know what a FAC did because they watched "Bat 21". Know this: Although based on a truly hairy and real event, the movie is absofookinglutely nothing like the real FAC job was.
Thats why my uncle showed me the pics of that battle.
