{"id":3830,"date":"2020-10-31T17:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2020-10-31T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:44:35","slug":"tess-keating-blog-post-11-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/31\/tess-keating-blog-post-11-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Keating Blog Post 11\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like it is easy to get caught up in the cinematics of war movies and forget that they actually portray something that really happened. While watching <\/span>Platoon<\/span><\/i> I tried to watch it through the lens knowing that the things that happened in the movie are actually what soldiers in the Vietnam War had to go through. This made the movie even more shocking and horrifying to watch. The awful conditions and gruesome things the men had to do and saw were all highlighted. Soldiers had to sleep on dirt with dangerous bugs and animals, watch their friends get shot, and be terrorized in the middle of the night. I can\u2019t imagine how hard it would be to go to such a different environment than I am used to and be pushed to do things I would never do before. I never really learned much about the Vietnam War so watching this and realizing that it is something that actually happened and people had to go through it was eye opening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After watching <\/span>Platoon<\/span><\/i> and being able to understand just how horrible the conditions of the Vietnam War were, I thought about how it must have been so terrible for the soldiers who didn\u2019t even believe in the war and still had to live through it because they were drafted. Something like that changes you forever and while some men volunteered for it, others were chosen at random, had no choice, and were changed forever. I can imagine many soldiers had feelings of resentment, especially since they didn\u2019t even win the war and had to come back and try to return to normal life after what they went through. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like it is easy to get caught up in the cinematics of war movies and forget that they actually portray something that really…<\/p>\n

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