Baseball and Vietnam War Film Posters

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1) Like in Apocalypse Now, my father has orders to go deep into the jungle to take out a strung out Marlon Brando.

2) Like in Platoon, my father is just another soldier as fights both the VC and the men in his platoon.

3) Sometimes a sergeant yells at, belittles, and psychologically destroys my father, like in Full Metal Jacket. Sometimes my father is the sergeant.

4) Just like Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July, my father’s post-traumatic stress kicks in when firecrackers explode. A baby cries. He and I share war stories.

5) My father pulls a Good Morning, Vietnam by infuriating his superiors: “failing in obedience.”

6) Every day is The Deer Hunter, playing Russian Roulette in fear of any triggers.

7) We Were Soldiers.

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POSTMEMORY: “describes the relationship

that the ‘generation after’ bears [Apocalypse Now]

to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma

[Platoon] of [my father] who came before

to experiences [I] ‘remember’ only

by means of the [Full Metal Jacket] stories [and] images,

[from movies] and behaviors among

which [I] grew up. But these experiences

were transmitted to [me] so deeply and affectively

[Good Morning, Vietnam] as to seem to constitute

memories in their own [Born on

the Fourth of July] right.”