comes over as a paragon of poster-paint machismo and movie-star mawkishness. We Were Soldiers is battlefield pornography posing as Purple Heart heroics. It would have raised a firestorm of ...

Using footage from the war, my obligatory military service 15 years ago and my life in the East, I tried to make sense of the hell we found ourselves in, once again.

We Were Soldiers In 1965, 400 American soldiers parachute into a valley surrounded by 2000 North Vietnamese troops. This film tells the story of the men on both sides, as well as their families ...