Being a military dependent for most my life I was interested in seeing what take this film would go in when it comes to the war in Iraq-both on whether it would take a stand and what would come out of the mouths of soldiers regarding the war. The stand it took was fine, although the medical surgeon's son being against the war on principal AND simply because his father was involved seemed all wrong. I have friends and family members that have been involved in this war and others. One can hate their parent b/c they're "that age" but a hug some kind of glad you're OK emotion would've been made at some point in time. I don't know who their military liaison was or if they even had one, but there were military no-no's from the beginning. No one absolutely NO ONE calls each other by their first name, and it gets worse from there.
The reactions by both the soldiers, their spouses, families, friends seemed more than wrong-it was a tragedy because had this been done right it really could've given the American people a window into what it's like to come home. Rather than the clichéd cookie cutter hodge podge that is HOME OF THE BRAVE, and the cheesy emotional music during the flashbacks made it feel like this was a bad after school special.
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