The Truth About The Troops By Jacob Laksin
In his 1989 big-screen drama Casualties of War, director Brian De Palma told the story of American soldiers in Vietnam through a fictional tale in which U.S. troops kidnap, gang-rape and ultimately murder a Vietnamese woman. Vietnam veterans objected, with justice, that De Palma’s slanted focus on a hideous act of brutality obscured the prominent truth that the overwhelming number of American servicemen accorded themselves humanely amidst the carnage of the war.
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