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A scene that really epitomized how the armed forces had prepared soldiers to return home, was when Homer greets his family and Wilma, after he gets out of the cab. Watching the scene unfold, Fred comments,"You gotta hand it to the Navy, they really taught him how to use those hands." Al replies, "They couldn't train him to put them around his girl and stroke her hair." This scene is very symptomatic of the issues that soldiers face when they try to return to civilian life. They have been trained to be a efficient and lethal weapons, to obey orders instantly and have experienced the death of many fellow servicemen. Trying to readjust to showing and receiving affection, could be very challenging. When Al returns to his family, he offers his wife a cigarette, forgetting that she doesn't smoke and he can't believe how much his family has changed in his absence. | A scene that really epitomized how the armed forces had prepared soldiers to return home, was when Homer greets his family and Wilma, after he gets out of the cab. Watching the scene unfold, Fred comments,"You gotta hand it to the Navy, they really taught him how to use those hands." Al replies, "They couldn't train him to put them around his girl and stroke her hair." This scene is very symptomatic of the issues that soldiers face when they try to return to civilian life. They have been trained to be a efficient and lethal weapons, to obey orders instantly and have experienced the death of many fellow servicemen. Trying to readjust to showing and receiving affection, could be very challenging. When Al returns to his family, he offers his wife a cigarette, forgetting that she doesn't smoke and he can't believe how much his family has changed in his absence. | ||
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| + | The film accurately portrayed many of the effects of the GI Bill, but I thought the way they handled giving loans to returning veterans was particularly accurate. It shows the risks that banks were forced to take when they gave these loans to servicemen because, as mentioned in class, the government only guaranteed half of the loans. While Al's boss agrees with the stirring speech that Al gives, the bank is taking on a lot of risk in doing so. Especially in the years immediately following the end of the war, it shows that people were still very afraid of the economy collapsing and I thought it was done very well. -Melissa | ||
== Things the movie got wrong == | == Things the movie got wrong == | ||
