The flag is the symbol of the soldier

Demond 2022-11-27 01:51:00

Escort Chance for the Fallen Leaves. Vietnam War veteran Sheppel has rediscovered his old comrades from thirty years ago, Sal and Richard, and wants them to help escort the remains of their son who died in Iraq back home for burial. In this way, the war fragments that have been buried for decades are pieced together little by little in the reunion! ! ! In fact, in the decades after the Vietnam War, the three of them were still more or less affected by the baptism of the war.

Thrall lives like a joke every day. He was full of complaints, and everyone seemed to be pointing a needle at Maimang, and every word he said was out of tune. In fact, the inner scars brought by the Vietnam War, the deepest crack is him! Because he has never come out of the trauma caused by the war, he lives in a muddled way every day, and has lost the goal of life and the motivation to chase the sun and rain! !

Richard, who chose the profession of priest, was more like redeeming himself for what he had done in the war. But that memory can't be erased by chanting baptisms, just like the reaction he saw when he saw his two old comrades in arms, he wanted to reject them as hard as he could, but also went with them to help Sheppel fulfill his wish. . It seems that he decided to help Sheppel under the persuasion of his wife, but it is more like his inner guilt that made him decide to lend a helping hand to Sheppel (he and Sal made Shepple squatted in the army prison in the past) . It's just that his heart is more complicated, unlike Thrall's decadent life. Maybe it's because the priest has been serving for a long time, and the hurt heart can get a little peace.

Sheppel had a big cauldron and went to prison. Among the people who framed him were Thrall and Richard, but after so many years, when dealing with the burial of his son Kari, he could think (or get These two comrades-in-arms are the only ones who help, and the mood among them must be quite complicated! ! ! At this time, Sheppel had long since faded from resentment, and only the life and death brothers in the trenches brought him by that memory! ! !

Just as Shepherd thought, the three of them did their best in their own way for the burial of Kari's body. There were many episodes during the period, but in the end, the three of them came to the place where Larry was buried together and fulfilled Sheppel's wish. During this period, Thrall was out of tune, Richard was more stable (sometimes impulsive, maybe because he was with his old comrades in arms), and Sheppel's slightly dull attitude, let them go with the corporal of Washington who escorted Larry. , Through chatting and recalling together, everyone gradually opened their dusty hearts, and the views of the old and new generations of soldiers on war and life were vividly expressed: "Every generation has their war!!!" This kind of pain , another kind of pain, all the same pain.

The three old buddies also plucked up the courage to go to the home of their comrades-in-arms who had sacrificed for many years, and saw their comrades' families.

During the period, Sheppel's sentence was very intriguing: "I don't want to bury a navy, I just want to bury my son." The simple words make people endlessly sigh.

Thrall's uninhibited, Richard's want to forget. But at the moment of burial, the two men in military uniforms again revealed the perseverance and unyielding of the soldiers in their eyes. The action of receiving the flag, the solemnity of the salute, is still so meticulous. At that moment, their minds were united again, and the fortitude and belief of the soldiers when they saw the flag of their own country could not be erased in a lifetime.

At the end, after Shepherd read his son's suicide note, the scene when the three old buddies looked at each other silently is really worth a thousand words! ! !

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Last Flag Flying quotes

  • Sal Nealon: [about his dead son] We're taking him with us today.

    Colonel Wilits: With all due respect, sir, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

    Sal Nealon: Hey. Colonel. Did you look at these faces? They've already been spited, so why should we give a fuck about your opinions? - With all due respect.

  • Sal Nealon: Man, I would've loved to run into you in the field in my younger days.

    Colonel Wilits: You really think so?

    Sal Nealon: Oh, yeah. 'Cause one of us would have been fragged. And the other would've gone to the brig.