The corrected sentence would read: "It was based on a novel that was in turn based on true events that occurred in the French Army during World War I."
David R. Russell, Berkeley
Add big grain of salt to 'The Tillman Story'
The statement that Dwight Eisenhower "retired as president in 1956" is just a minor indication of the paucity of facts and the superfluity of senselessness in the Oct. 31 letter about the "almost unbelievable story of deception by our trusted leaders" characterized in the movie "The Tillman Story." (Eisenhower "retired" from the presidency in January 1961.)
The movie is unbelievable because, in their unrestrained liberal zealousness, the makers of the movie freely used innuendo, deception, distortion of facts and mephitic bending of the truth to sell their spurious agenda to gullibly unsuspecting moviegoers.
Of course, Eisenhower's cynically obtuse warning "Beware of the military-industrial complex" has been refuted and invalidated many times by highly perspicacious minds who are acutely aware that without the military-industrial "complex" the people of not only the United States but also of the free world would have become enslaved by communist aggressors during past decades and by maniacally bloodthirsty Islamic monsters who are currently terrorizing the world's people.
Samuel Johnson's childishly simple-minded pronouncement "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" may have had some validity when the world was developing and scoundrels cowardly retreated into the safe havens of misnamed "patriotism." Today, patriotism is the hallmark of solid and noble Americans who are rightfully proud of their country, the greatest that has ever existed and one that is always in the forefront of battling and thwarting militant despots who advocate our annihilation. Scoundrels are unwelcome.
Those who watch "The Tillman Story" movie should be accompanied by a very large grain of salt.
Lanny Middings, San Ramon
This article appeared on page Q - 4 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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