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Kelly's Heroes is one of the best war movies in my opinion. He played Oddball very well. Oddball's line about how his commander was trying to get them killed since Normandy resonated with me.

My dad was an infantryman in World War 2 in the European Theater of Operations. His war book had a lot dead listed in it. He underlined the ones he knew. One was a lieutenant. I asked my dad about the lieutenant and my dad's response was, "He was a West Point asshole."

Being in a war doesn't make one a hero. Mostly you are fighting because you have to and your goal is for you and your buddies to survive.

That's how you motivate people to kill who normally would never ever want to kill:

You bond them to their workmates, and then you put them in a place where the other side is trying to kill all of them.

"We got our own ammunition, it's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes... pretty pictures. Scares the hell out of people"

I love you Oddball :) I think you had some kind of profound effect upon me when I was in single digit figures of age and watched this film with my dad.. You rock man }:-8)

It's mentioned in this one.