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Early on in Randall Wallace's most recent combat epic, We Were Soldiers, Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, played by Mel Gibson, visits his 5-year-old daughter at bedtime. Moore is about to be sent to Vietnam. He's wearing his olive-drab fatigues, boots spit-polished, muscles visible under the Army-issue fabric. His daughter is tiny, barefoot in her flannel nightgown, the picture...
Benevolent Soldier, Rotten War
By FRED TURNEREarly on in Randall Wallace's most recent combat epic, We Were Soldiers, Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, played by Mel Gibson, visits his 5-year-old daughter at bedtime. Moore is about to be sent to Vietnam. He's wearing his olive-drab fatigues, boots spit-polished, muscles visible under the Army-issue fabric. His daughter is tiny, barefoot in her flannel nightgown, the picture...
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