For pete's sake, the trailer brought a tear to my eye. I've got to watch this.

 

Damn you!

Haven't seen the movie yet but have the schedule.

I've escorted a couple of our guys with the PGR from Dover to a funeral home in D.C., on their way to Arlington and the story in the second link hit home.

If you can read that story without chocking up, you're a heartless SOB.

Time for another Rum & Coke.

 

Thank you, Ms. Mary. I am not much on tv and don't have cable but I persued your links and have had tears the whole time. I thank God for people like Chance and thank God that this country finally honors them. For all those who have served, Welcome Home and thank you.

 

+1 on the heartless SOB comment. If this doesn't move you, nothing will. This movie NEEDS to be seen by everyone in this country.

I stayed pretty much all teared up the whole time I was watching it. Will be watching it again tonight with a friend.

Kevin Bacon nailed it.

 

In your thread title, you stated "All Americans Should watch...." well being a red blooded Canadian and as proud to be, as much as you are being American.

I watched the movie and was deeply moved, because of the respect for Chance but how everyone showed the deserved respect.

It also touched me as many of my countrymen leave Afghanistan in flagged draped coffins for their final flight home. Different flag, same respect , same sorrow.

Whether from South or North of the 49th parallel God Bless Them All

 

Just finished watching it for the third time, this time with my daughter, she was teared up the whole movie.

 

Godspeed to our soldiers, god bless our fallen heroes, puts it in a different perspective, and if you did not choke up go check yourself heartless bas*****s!

 

I just watched this today. Very humbling.

 

Yeah, the film is in stark contrast to this article I read today about Jane Fonda...Traitor B*tch

Vietnam vets protest Jane Fonda's Broadway showing
By VERENA DOBNIK (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
February 22, 2009 7:28 PM EST

NEW YORK - It's been decades, but Jane Fonda still can't shake her "Hanoi Jane" image from the Vietnam War.
About a dozen Vietnam veterans and other protesters on Saturday picketed the theater where the 71-year-old actress is starring in the Broadway play "33 Variations," telling passers-by that she had once visited their communist enemy in Hanoi.
"Jane Fonda is a traitor," said Dan Maloney of the Gathering of Eagles, which bills itself as a national, nonpartisan veterans group. "She got on Hanoi radio and called every U.S. serviceman a war criminal."
Fonda was tagged with the sobriquet "Hanoi Jane" after visiting the North Vietnamese capital in 1972, where she made radio broadcasts critical of U.S. policy and sat on an anti-aircraft gun laughing and clapping, as she describes in her autobiography, "My Life So Far."
Though she still defends her anti-war activism, Fonda has acknowledged that the incident was "a betrayal" of American forces.
"That two-minute lapse of sanity will haunt me until the day I die," she wrote.
Fonda currently plays a musicologist in the Moises Kaufman play about reconciliation, set against the woman's obsession with Beethoven's 33 variations on a waltz. It marks her return to Broadway after 46 years.

 

Well said!