Act of Valor
Feb 26, 2012 13:55:50 GMT
Post by anglophile on Feb 26, 2012 13:55:50 GMT
Hubby suggested we see the new movie "Act of Valor," an action pic that used actual Navy SEALS in some of the filming. The government gave the small film company the chance to film the SEALS on various training missions, apparently, and then treat the footage as though it were part of the hunt-em-down-rescue-the-good-guys-destroy-the-bad-guys action.
Even though a small company produced it and even though I'm not big at all into this kind of movie, it was very good. But the thing that really got us there in the first place was that one of the young SEALS who was included in the filming was raised here in our hometown.
We never actually met him, that I recall, but his uncle was our friend and neighbor for several years when the SEAL was a little boy and we knew several of his mother's family.
Sadly, after the filming was done, Aaron Vaughn was killed in action on a rescue mission last summer somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan or one of those places where there is so much violence.
I'm sorry, but I had to think carefully about how to phrase that so it would be politically correct. I hope it passed muster.
I rather think Aaron's widow and two preschool children, his parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and siblings and the many, many friends he left behind here and, now, scattered all over the world might have worded it differently.
At the end of the movie, the producers pay tribute to the SEALS who have died in service since 9/11. The list is very long.
I don't know what else there is to say -- except "thank you, Aaron, from a grateful American."
Even though a small company produced it and even though I'm not big at all into this kind of movie, it was very good. But the thing that really got us there in the first place was that one of the young SEALS who was included in the filming was raised here in our hometown.
We never actually met him, that I recall, but his uncle was our friend and neighbor for several years when the SEAL was a little boy and we knew several of his mother's family.
Sadly, after the filming was done, Aaron Vaughn was killed in action on a rescue mission last summer somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan or one of those places where there is so much violence.
I'm sorry, but I had to think carefully about how to phrase that so it would be politically correct. I hope it passed muster.
I rather think Aaron's widow and two preschool children, his parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and siblings and the many, many friends he left behind here and, now, scattered all over the world might have worded it differently.
At the end of the movie, the producers pay tribute to the SEALS who have died in service since 9/11. The list is very long.
I don't know what else there is to say -- except "thank you, Aaron, from a grateful American."
