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** Creator/RyanHurst is Sergeant Ernie Savage, years before he was [[Series/SonsOfAnarchy Opie]] or [[Series/TheWalkingDead Beta.]]
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** Creator/RyanHurst is Sergeant Ernie Savage, years before he was [[Series/SonsOfAnarchy Opie]] or [[Series/TheWalkingDead [[Series/TheWalkingDead2010 Beta.]]
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** Picking up radio transmissions from the far side of the world is very possible with radios operating on certain bands, due to a quirk of signals under certain atmosphere conditions: they can bounce off of one of the upper layers of the atmosphere, using it like a reflector to bankshot transmissions around the curvature of the Earth.
** The scenes that critics complained were cheesy, corny, melodramatic or unrealistic tended to be the ones lifted ''directly from real life!'' This includes lines said by soldiers as they were dying. In the director's commentary the director himself brings this up, which makes the rather ironic point that it would have been far more unrealistic if the soldiers had said something witty or clever as they were lying dying in enormous pain with little mental faculties left. Critics also tend to forget that the dark cynicism now associated with the Vietnam War only set in as the conflict dragged on for years; soldiers going into combat and civilians at home were both quite optimistic and supportive at the outset of the war, so a dying soldier declaring how proud he is to give his life for his country wasn't exactly out of the ordinary.
** Picking up radio transmissions from the far side of the world is very possible with radios operating on certain bands, due to a quirk of signals under certain atmosphere conditions: they can bounce off of one of the upper layers of the atmosphere, using it like a reflector to bankshot transmissions around the curvature of the Earth.
** The scenes that critics complained were cheesy, corny, melodramatic or unrealistic tended to be the ones lifted ''directly from real life!'' This includes lines said by soldiers as they were dying. In the director's commentary the director himself brings this up, which makes the rather ironic point that it would have been far more unrealistic if the soldiers had said something witty or clever as they were lying dying in enormous pain with little mental faculties left. Critics also tend to forget that the dark cynicism now associated with the Vietnam War only set in as the conflict dragged on for years; soldiers going into combat and civilians at home were both quite optimistic and supportive at the outset of the war, so a dying soldier declaring how proud he is to give his life for his country wasn't exactly out of the ordinary.
