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In the hospital when Ron freaks out at the nurses and they don't have the right pump for his leg, the doctor explains to him, "Cutbacks. The government's just not giving us the money we need to take care of you guys." According to what we learned in the lecture, this would have been accurate, and the possibility that someone like Ron could lose his leg because of those cutbacks was real. -Whitney Holcomb | In the hospital when Ron freaks out at the nurses and they don't have the right pump for his leg, the doctor explains to him, "Cutbacks. The government's just not giving us the money we need to take care of you guys." According to what we learned in the lecture, this would have been accurate, and the possibility that someone like Ron could lose his leg because of those cutbacks was real. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
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| + | I was surprised with how much this movie was able to accurately portray. You really see how hard it was for the Vets to return to the states with no support from their country and all of the stresses from war. Most of them were druggies or, like Ron, alcoholics. You also see how crappy the hospitals were and how little funding they received from the federal government. I know we learned in class that it was much less than post-WWII America but the movie really made it real how few doctors there were and how just, disgusting the hospitals actually were. I was NOT prepared for the bedpans and the vomit. That was unnecessary. -Kelly Wuyscik | ||
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