We Are Soldiers Still: Movie Vs. The Film

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The book We Are Soldiers Still by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway connects to the film American Sniper by Clint Eastwood. For example in We are Soldiers Still on page 1 it talks about during the war in Vietnam it was a gruesome and terrifying war and how no one was your friend even if they were a local in Vietnam. In American Sniper this guy named Chris Kyle went to a war over in Iraq to be a sniper for Navy Seals and to protect his comrades and the marines who were checking houses for survivors but in the movie they talk about how the war is terrible and every corner they turn there is someone trying to kill them and no matter what do not trust any locals because most of the time they were trying to kill you. Another reason the

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