I'm sure most of them are solid citizens.
2006-07-18 12:02:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Well being a retired Navy Seal, think I can ans that.. Thats just what most americans think of us..Boy when I came home they spit on me and called me a baby killer..Yes I've killed but only when it was kill or be killed...People have the wrong idea of us, we were doing a job, nothing more.. I was very very proud to have fought for my country, That is untill I got home....Its a shame the way we were treated and are still being treated now..Honor your service mem, there the ones giving there lives for you and yours..... LOL Your friend here in Tennessee ROB...Sorry sour subj!
2006-07-18 12:17:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because it's far more interesting to watch than a movie about a guy that comes back from Vietnam, gets a job, a wife, a house, some kids and dog, don't you think?
It's Hollywood...they always portray the bad side of stuff, because that's apparently what people want to see.
2006-07-18 12:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Dolphin lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Characters are more interesting if they have personal problems, and making the vets anti-social adds plot possibilities aside from things blowing up.
Also, it could be argued that many Hollywood writers- particularly those growing up in the Vietnam era- take a cynical view of the war. Showing the veterans of Vietnam as broken people is just their way of demonstrating how disastrous the war was (in their opinion).
2006-07-18 12:09:05 · answer #3 · answered by timm1776 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them are solid citizens, but war changes people, and seening the kind of things they had to see ( I'm sure it's the same for our guys coming back from Iraq) messed alot of them up
2006-07-18 12:05:51 · answer #4 · answered by cynthetiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the movies are about depressed drunks from the vietnam era.
2006-07-18 12:04:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a bad war. Really bad
as most wars are we dont think about the effects
You cant send men to kill women and children and expect them to come home feeling great.
Our country turned our backs on them, which is exactly what will happen with this war.
its already happening.
My cousin came back from Iraq and he want to go back to Iraq
he says that you are treated better there then here and you can do what you want. You are treated with meaning
2006-07-18 12:05:34 · answer #6 · answered by St Guido 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I enjoyed ,"Coming living house" with Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.I additionally study a e book talked approximately as "Survivors" which tells the story of 9 Vietnam Vets of their own words.it somewhat is a efficient e book.I additionally enjoyed finished metallic Jacket.That guy who performed the D.I. replaced right into a actual sargeant.
2016-12-10 09:46:04 · answer #7 · answered by kleid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ther where at lot of them that where stung out on drugs and booze when they got home and depressesed because people back home hated them and called them baby killers my dad is a vietnam vet and he is a pretty good guy but he does drink alot and has flash backs every now and then still to this day
2006-07-18 12:05:47 · answer #8 · answered by abramelin_the_wise_mage 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of them are, but remember they went though he** over there. When they came home they had no recognition for what they tried to do. It doesn't matter if they won the war or not, they were serving their country. Their patriotism was above reproach and they were condemned for what their country and government initially told them was right.
2006-07-18 12:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by Miss Lou 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps because US citizens don't want to believe that their troops got humped by a rag tag army from a 3rd World country.
Therefore, by portraying them as pot-smoking, beer drinking idiots, it makes it more acceptable, as "real" troops wouldn't have got beaten.
2006-07-18 12:05:56 · answer #10 · answered by jonmorritt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋