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** [[spoiler: Recuperating in hospital after the escape, Nick is asked his mother's name. Understandably traumatized, he realizes he can't and has a tearful breakdown. PTSD, an addiction to Russian Roulette and a great deal of guilt makes him such an EmptyShell near the end of the movie that he can't even recognize Mike, despite his friend's pleas to come home.]]

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** [[spoiler: Recuperating in a Saigon hospital after the escape, Nick is asked his mother's name. Understandably traumatized, he realizes he can't and has a tearful breakdown. PTSD, an addiction to Russian Roulette and a great deal of guilt makes him such an EmptyShell near the end of the movie that he can't even recognize Mike, despite his friend's pleas to come home.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The night before they're due to go off to 'Nam, Nick tells Michael "Don't leave me over there." [[spoiler:That's what motivates Michael to go back to Vietnam to rescue Nick.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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The night before they're due to go off to 'Nam, Nick tells Michael "Don't leave me over there." [[spoiler:That's what motivates Michael to go back to Vietnam to rescue Nick.]]
** [[spoiler: Recuperating in hospital after the escape, Nick is asked his mother's name. Understandably traumatized, he realizes he can't and has a tearful breakdown. PTSD, an addiction to Russian Roulette and a great deal of guilt makes him such an EmptyShell near the end of the movie that he can't even recognize Mike, despite his friend's pleas to come home.
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* RayOfHopeEnding

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* RayOfHopeEndingRayOfHopeEnding: the gang have lost so much but they still have one another, their home, they still love their country and all it represents and now have a new child to raise between them.
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* CatchPhrase: "Fuckin' A!"

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* CatchPhrase: "Fuckin' A!"A!", especially for Axel.

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