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What are some favorite movies?

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My single favorite Memorial Day movie...and, in general, my single favorite war / military movie:

Taking Chance

Just deeply, deeply moving.

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The movie is based on the recollections of U.S. Marine Lt. Col Michael Strobl, a real person, who accompanied the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, a Marine fatally wounded by gunfire near Baghdad during the Iraq War, from Dover Air Force Base to Dubois, Wyoming in April 2004. He attended both Phelps's funeral and his memorial service, and wrote an essay about the entire experience, the emotions he felt and the people he met. It was published in the blog Blackfive on 23 April 2004 and was circulated widely on the Internet.

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Understated and respectful film with a fine performance from Kevin Bacon. Plenty of pathos w/o being cloyingly over the top like some of the gushing hyperpatriotic stuff's been since the Bush Administration when everybody started thanking me for my service all the time. If you really want to be a patriot, sign up for a hitch. The only branch even coming close to meeting their recruiting goals is the Marines. Semper Fi.