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In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares what is depicted in this 2002 film directed by Randall Wallace with the Vietnam War. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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valley coded Landing Zone X-Ray, that is not so fondly remembered by survivors as "the Valley of Death" (Umezawa 22). The American forces quickly found themselves outnumbered by about
2,000 determined North Vietnamese guerrillas in what remains one of the bloodiest contests of the Vietnam war (Umezawa 22). Three days later, in the Albany landing area, another outmanned
American unit was similarly ravaged. As a result of the conflicts in Landing Zones X-Ray and Albany, there were 234 U.S. casualties, which was more than the loss of
life in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and according to some experts more than any other American loss of life with the lone exception of the battle of Gettysburg (Umezawa
22). Paramount Pictures released Randall Wallaces film We Were Soldiers in March 2002, which was based on the bestseller of the events of November 14-16, 1965 as recounted by
Lt. Col. Harold Hal Moore and Joseph Galloway in We Were Soldiers Once... And Young. After nearly 48 hours of constant gunfire and carnage, only a few hundred American
troops were left standing, and We Were Soldiers features the perspectives of two of the lucky ones - a commanding officer of the Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist.
Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors on the film making certain that it embodied what Moore believed were the four central themes of
the battle - its intensity, the soldiers willingness to fight for each other, respect for their opponents, and the crushing grief with which families at home struggled (Coatney 313).
Director Wallace also hope the film would "help heal the wounds" that the Vietnam War left gaping and from which scars still remain (Coatney 313). For the filmmaker, the
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