· In both the movie and book, they went into the heart of the enemy’s territory. In Afghanistan they go and build a base in the heart of the enemies land. In Fallen Angels they keep having to go further and further up into enemy territory to fight the Viet Cong.
· Both celebrate/remember their friend’s deaths. Fallen Angels they celebrated Brew’s birthday by making a cake and in Restrepo they shot of a flare on the anniversary of their friend’s death.
· One of the soldiers completely broke down in the heat of battle because of a friend’s death and couldn’t accept it. In fallen angels Johnson could not handle when Brew died. He didn’t really know what to do.
· At the beginning of Restrepo the Hummer vehicle hits a land mine which reminds me of when Jenkins steps on a mine and dies in fallen angels.
· When Staff Sergeant Rugel was killed in a firefight it reminds me of in Fallen Angels when Sergeant Carrol was killed in action.
· In Restrepo they had IPod’s and PSP’s to keep them entertained while in Fallen Angels they were entertained by volley ball games and books/comics.
· In fallen angels they prayed when people died such as Brew, and in Restrepo they prayed for the death of the other squad that had 9 people killed across the valley.
· During the war in Restrepo one of the members didn’t tell his family that Rugel was killed because he didn’t want them to worry and it was his mom’s birthday. In fallen angels Perry didn’t write home about killing his first guy to his brother Kenny because he didn’t know how to say it yet.
· In both Fallen Angles and Restrepo the call their base camps Hooch’s.
· In both Restrepo and Fallen Angels the attack helicopters killed many people of the enemy, but also killed innocent civilians. This made the villagers mad at them for killing their innocent friends accidentally.
Watching the documentary Restrepo and reading Fallen Angels taught me a lot about war. One thing I have seen from these was that war is not like how Hollywood movies show it. There is real violence and it doesn’t show peoples true emotions in Hollywood, and combat is much more realistic and balanced between both sides. In the book and movie, it was clear that the U.S. struggled a lot at different times. When the squads went on patrols, they both took fire and lost soldiers. In Restrepo, they lost Restrepo and they lost Luetenit Carroll in Fallen Angels. When they were in battles they didn't have an unlimited supply of better weapons to easily take out the enemy like in movies. The enemy had weapons just as good, and they used good strategies that made it very difficult for the U.S. to fight back.
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