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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.
________________________________________
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.”
