On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:44:18 -0400, "cybercat" > wrote:
>
>Like everyone does not know that war entails bullets slamming into
>human meat? What kind of idiot needs several minutes of nothing but
>the sight and sound of that?
>
And yet, the soldiers in those LSTs had to endure
that hell-trip to the beach.... however long it took.

If you felt any emathy with them at all,
then the opening scenes did their job.


<rj>