PLATOON

The film Platoon that was watched on Tuesday was an interesting film about the war in Vietnam through the eyes of Oliver Stone. Stone gives a negative image about the war in Vietnam. He shows scenes of soldiers acting immoral by wanting to rape a small girl. Also the captain did not know what he was suppose to do and even how to lead the soldiers. The captain ends up killing one of his partners beacuse of the lack in support and guidance for one another. The soldiers all cared about the survival for themselves, they did not much care for the survival of their friends and peers. The Vice president of La Guardia, Peter Katopes who also is Vietnam veteran says that Oliver Stone was a snub and that this is really not the way he saw when he was solider. Katopes says that he has never seen one solider killing another or wanting to rape a girl, instead he says everyone helped one another for the need to survive. We feel that since Stone was a Vietnam Veteran this is how the war in Vietnam was, but Katopes says that it was not this way at all. Hamburger Hill which is also a film on the war in Vietnam gives a better description of what really went on in Vietnam says Katopes. Katopes feels that later generations and his own grandchildren may not know the truth about Vietnam and all they might see was Platoon and think to themselves our grandfather was really an immoral person and he may have killed his friends, says Katopes so therefore it's important to pass the information to our children by giving then facts that we know base on legitimate research. Katopes says that the government tells us know that " We are at War" Katopes says the people who are really in the Iraq war are the ones who have families fighting in the war, however the rest of the nation is not actively involved in the war, and Katopes says this is the governments fault for not making us got involve on the war in Iraq. The media depiction about the war in Iraq is that we don't get all the facts and the death toll numbers on the soldiers. In the beginning of the war we use to watch the war live and see what is happening, now the media does not show the war. Also we use to watch the soldiers who died brought back in caskets now we don't see it anymore they only bring it out by night so the people don't see it says Prof: Louis Lucca, a faculty at La Guardia college. The media lies to us and the government is not telling us all the details. The only thing we hear being repeated over and over again is President Bush saying " Weapons of Mass Destruction." The reason they repeated is for us to come to believe it says Lucca. This is what the media is doing right now to us. We must be alert and always question and find the truth. Do not believe what the media is telling us, and most of all do not trust the government.