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Originally Posted by tcolvin
Surely 'hindsight' is not the concern. Writing history by definition is to benefit from hindsight.
The concern, surely, is the increasing prevalence of anachronism.
For example in films; the GIs in 'Saving Private Ryan' behave like the potsmoking generation in Vietnam. In the film 'Atonement', a Lancaster flies overhead in 1935, while an infantry soldier kicks off his army boots and arrives in Dunkirk without his rifle. None of these could happen.
Tony
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How odd...I would have thought Dale Dye (the Guy who trained them to 'act like proper soldiers' ) would have kicked the 'current attitude' out of them while he was still putting them through their basic training';
NM