"Often we hear people say, 'Yes, we support the soldiers, but we don't support the cause, '" he said.
However, the message running through We Were Soldiers is too laboured and too sentimental.
In the afternoon we watched soldiers playing hide and go seek with children on the ground below.
We Were Soldiers is on general release in the UK from 8 March.
We Were Soldiers is a Vietnam War drama that stars Mel Gibson as the commander of an embattled U.S. Army battalion.
And it will also boycott forthcoming DVD and video releases of the award-winning Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and Mel Gibson's Vietnam epic We Were Soldiers.
Understand that we want soldiers on the front lines of battle to have the most up-to-date intelligence that's possible about the enemy that they face, the tactics that they use.
We need soldiers and diplomats, scientists, teachers, workers, entrepreneurs.
If we send our soldiers off to fight a fair fight, we will have failed them.
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"We need American soldiers up there rescuing our children now, " Len Gengel told Merten on CNN.
In fact, we found that soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado often can't get the help they need even when they're feeling desperate.
"Hasan was a soldier and we have other soldiers ... that might have some of the same stress and indicators that he has, " Lt.
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"Don't forget, as soldiers we weren't very politically-minded people, " he said.
Flip the coin and contrast that to the UK where, despite many public campaigns, we still have people objecting to a home for our wounded soldiers' families, we still have a nation that at times seems immune to homeless and psychologically damaged soldiers.
Us players are like those soldiers - we wear the national flag when we play.
We jumped in between soldiers and drones, battling what seemed like endless waves.
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Now, with satellite communication and Web-based mail, our soldiers, we attest, can be here and there at the same time.
"We are working with soldiers -- the most able-bodied -- to carry more weight and reduce back injuries, " Bender said.
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Major CLAIR DUTTON (Senior Military Nurse, Solihull Hospital): The difference with what we've had, bringing soldiers back to a civilian hospital, is that they get a multitude of specialties that we wouldn't have been able to offer them in a military hospital.
We anticipate losing thousands of soldiers and Marines - that one really concerns me.
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Our actions now must represent the best we can do for our soldiers.
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We expect leaders to support soldiers getting care and treatment without bias.
Michelle and I hold this commitment close in our hearts, just as we keep each of our soldiers in our hearts and in our prayers.
"This is information that affects the lives of soldiers and the civilians we're trying protect, " Broskey adds.
We're hearing from American soldiers in Iraq this week in their own words.
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