This film takes place in 1965. My father was there in Vietnam in 68 and 69. He said this movie is the most realistic of any Vietnam war movies he’d seen. My father was in the 1st cavalry division like the soldiers in this movie, but not this exact regiment. What you said at the end of the movie about soldiers having to learn to live again, that was very true of my dad. It was something he struggled with all the way until his death 11 years ago. I was very close to my dad and he told me a lot about the war and his thoughts and feelings. He once told me to get through the war he had to accept that he was already a dead man, and he wouldn’t be coming home alive. That made it to where he could function and do his job instead of simply trying to survive. I don’t know that he ever truly turned that mindset off. He was a bad alcoholic after coming home from Vietnam. I remember him being very cold and cruel at times when I was younger, but he was always very funny and loving toward me. He had a very morbid and dark sense of humor from being a combat veteran. I remember him telling me once, you can either cry about it or laugh…I’d rather laugh. A couple months before he died he told me one morning that be didn’t sleep well because he’d had nightmares all night long of dodging B40 rockets. That was 40 years after returning from Vietnam.

My brother was there in the early 60s. I got there in the early 70s. I survived (physically). My brother, a hero, is P-02E/L101. We were not wanted over there. When we came home, we were not wanted here. Now to have had someone in the White house, that used his dad's influence to hide from it all, then call all my brothers & sisters that did what we were asked, as he calls us cowards, fools & all his disrespect towards all Vets & our active soldiers . Yet he calls himself a Patriot, is an insult to anyone that ever put on or will put on a uniform.

I'm an Iraq vet & got lucky. I was married 5 days b4 deployment & my wife had to hang tough as a (very) newlywed (I love & respect her for it). I can say the battlefield isn't the only front in the war. There is (was) a war at home. I'm glad this movie focused so much on the wives & families. They had it pretty hard (as depicted). Like today, USA was very divided Politically & Socially over the Vietnam War & other issues. Wives & Kids of Soldiers/Sailors, etc. dealt w/a lot (even at school). Thank you for reacting to this & respect you both displayed. This isn't the 1st reaction of yours I've watched. You're both mature & sensitive young women.

Hal Moore went back to Vietnam after retirement from the Army and met Nguyen Hu An the two former adversaries, had great respect for each other. There is a KZfaq video of their meeting 😊

Sam Elliot is hilarious in this😂

Usually the worst PTSD is experienced by people in war not because of the horrors that they saw performed by others but because of the horrific things they themselves were forced to do in order to survive. Usually things you never thought yourself capable of or ever being put in a position to have to do

This is why I honor and respect our flag and our national anthem. For all those brave men and women that fight for us and die for us. For my great grandfather and grandfather and father and other family that have served and fought for us. I honor all of them for being greatful for our freedoms we have.

Stop making me cry. Running out of Kleenex. Watch a happy war movie. Try Kelly's Heroes.

I have a family member in the Korean War he was killed in 1952. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving his buddies from a hand grenade.

As a Teen Boy in the 60's early 70's , we all waited for iur Draft Notice to come when we turned 18. The Lottery started in 1969 for those born in 1950 and 1951, being born in 1956 we were the last year in the Lottery, but our Troops were pulling out so I didn't need to go. You try not to think about it, if you can measure up, not let your fellow soldiers down, but you do. It had been 10 years, seeing our Uncles, Older Brothers go to Vietnam, some not coming back, the ones who did, changed forever. The average age was 19-20 years old, but they were no longer young, ever again. Those who were wounded and dying, always ask for a message to either their Mother, their Wife, or their Children. Women should know this, that you are always our Last Thoughts...

My Father served with Hal Moore and received the Bronze Star with Sgt. Major Plumley and many other soldiers.

As a combat veteran, I wanted to thank you for your well thought out and wise comments on the impact of combat on a person. You guys are spot on, thank you.

I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done.

As for the not being able to sleep at night part… when my dad came home in 1969. He stayed at his parent’s house the first few nights. He couldn’t get comfortable in a bed after months of sleeping on the ground or inside their Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) that he was the turret gunner for. Anyway, my grandma used to get up early to make breakfast for my grandpa at around 5am. She was walking to the kitchen and walked past my dad while he was sleeping in the living room floor. He heard her, woke up out of a sound sleep, then had his mom on the ground choking her with his forearm across her neck while he leaned on her with all his weight. My grandpa heard the struggle and had to hit him in the head with a small radio to get him to stop. That “woke” him up and he stopped. He had no idea what he was doing and was “awake” and “asleep” at the same time.

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This Scottish song they're singing and playing before going into the valley while they're in the helicopters is so touching... I wanted to cry when I heard this song because it's so beautiful.. it's also so sad. My family is also part Scottish also

I am a Navy Vet, so I never saw actual front-line combat. But A ship I was on and Amphib, had a full equipped hospital on board. On one Chinook, I went to pick up one end of the stretcher, the man's leg was hanging off the side. I went to gently put it back on the stretcher. Same thing happened as what happened in this film. A sizeable piece peeled off exposing bone and stuck to my hands. I still have images of that in my head. May sound odd to you, but sometimes I still smell that smell of burned flesh. I don't think I will ever forget that. I can't imagine what actual combat vets deal with. The vast majority of civilians have no clue what we deal with on a daily basis, even during normal routine everyday events. So, thank you what you said.

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I served 24 years, I remember deploying early in the morning leaving my wife and kids seeing the tears in their eyes. The first day is the hardest because you dont know if you will ever see them again and it resonates that those serving alongside you are all you truly have.

I met one of the guys in this battle. He was working at South Texas Research Institute in San Antonio Tx. as a janitor with his wife. Just cleaning rooms and restrooms. I finally talked to him and he told me he was in the battle of La Drang! I said excuse me the one from we were soldiers. He said yup I was a door gunner. He literally went back to that day in a second. He told me thank you for your service because we were both veterans. I had his name saved in my phone but I lost the phone and he game me a name to look up and I did but I lost the name as well. This was back in 2021. I never got a chance to speak to him again after that day.