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Lastly we have the movie We Were Soldiers. Death is shown here to be a horrible and agonizing event; soldiers were shot, burned, stabbed, and exploded. This is an action film set during the Battle of Ia Drang, one of the Vietnam war's most horrific battles. The war shows the randomness of death as soldiers all around Joe Galloway are dying. As an Army reporter Galloway has no real formal combat training but manages to survive this ordeal. In contrast to Galloway’s survivability hundreds of combat ready soldiers are killed. This shows how in a time of war, death has no meaning. Nonetheless, it does take on the form of luck, which is clear by Galloway’s ability to always be adjacent to the deceased, but he is never harmed. Furthermore, at the
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