Letters from Iwo Jima

[Footslogger]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

If we didn't like TRL we're looking for a pure actionfest or hero worship; and because we're wargamers we "hate" the movie?  My father, who is 85 and still spry as he can be, served in the US Army in WWII and saw combat.  He's never played a wargame nor, to my knowledge, touched a computer.  He detested TRL, but appreciated Saving Private Ryan. 

My father served in the Navy, Pacific Theatre. What did your father do, if I may ask?

[Canoerebel]

Sergeant in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) working in counterespionage - primarily locating and assisting in eradication or "flipping" of enemy agents in France.

[Vladd]

I'm not American, but I didn't see TRL as portraying the US as bad guys. Just as guys, really. It did show tortured and mutilated US corpses which hardly portrays the Japanese as saints.

It wasn't a patriotic film either, I grant that, but it wasn't trying to be.

[Ubercat]

ORIGINAL: Vladd

I'm not American, but I didn't see TRL as portraying the US as bad guys. Just as guys, really. It did show tortured and mutilated US corpses which hardly portrays the Japanese as saints.

It wasn't a patriotic film either, I grant that, but it wasn't trying to be.

It did? Like I said, it's been years. Maybe I judge too harshly.