Guest Blogger: Ryan P.

We were soldiers is about the war in Vietnam when the U.S. first lands on the battle field to win the fight to the top of the hill. The movie is about brave young man and their fight to live and make it home to their family when they fist get off the helicopter on the battle field they realize they are in an ambush with more than 2,000 North Vietnamese troops and they only have 400 U.S. troops so then the fight to survive starts. The characteristics of Lt. Col. Hal Moore known as Mel Gibson is the leader and the hardest fought men among the fleet. He was one of the bravest men and he was the first to get on the land of the battle field and the last to get off the battle field. The themes of the movie and what the audience is meant to get from it is that war is not fiction its reality that the way one man dies can affect the way another man survives and lives. The horrific seen of people being burned and their skin dripping off there body’s and peeling of their bones when they try to get then into the helicopter for safety and when people r getting shot in the head then they look and its one of their brothers in arms falling to the ground. After seeing things like that the men of war will never be able to live the same way again when they get back home. So that is why the way one man dies it can affects the way another man lives. But because of all of this the people keep going forward and reach their goal of making the Vietnam troop retreat and to win the battle so the people who died they didn’t die for noting. So in my opinion this movie is worth the time and money to see it because to me it’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.