The most touching military salute

Gennaro 2022-04-01 09:01:18

Every time in the film Colonel Mike slowly raised his right hand in salute to Chancellor's coffin, I couldn't hold back my tears. After watching this film, I realized that there is no need for incitement to be moved. "Sacrificing" such a great human act is enough for everyone to admire and be moved by it, without touching lines and special music. And the cohesion and humanity of the American people in this film makes us even more contemptuous of our own ugliness and flaws. This is a great movie. It is a war theme without gunshots, but it inspires everyone who knows how to be grateful and know how to miss it. Hats off to Chance, like every ordinary passerby in the movie.

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Taking Chance quotes

  • Rich Brewer: Nobody in my family's in the military and none of my friends. But I thought about joining up. Yeah, but I was too chickenshit.

    [chuckles, then silence]

    Rich Brewer: Sorry, I mean too chicken.

    LtCol Mike Strobl: You can say shit.

    Rich Brewer: Oh, cool. And plus the whole haircut thing. I'm in a band and, you know, you gotta keep it long to keep the ladies happy.

  • 1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander): [voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.