Sentences with phrase «war vet who»

Among this force is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a war vet who lost the use of his legs during battle.

We have home - grown militants, some of whom do not look at all ethnic, as witness Timothy McVeigh, a decorated Gulf War Vet who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

A pulpy, cathartic thriller that's dripping with 80s throwback style (including a Drive-esque synthpop score as its undercurrent), The Guest stars Dan Stevens as a mysterious Iraq war vet who drops in on his dead war buddy's family to visit and reminisce.

He's a traumatized war vet who can't cope with his losses — or his sins.

Marine war vet who enjoys every aspect of a woman with no drama.

ICYMI: David Bellavia, the Iraq War vet who is trying (so far without apparent success) to land Row C in the yet - uncalled NY - 26 special election, told me last night on CapTon that he has switched his enrollment from the GOP to the Conservative Party.

The story revolves around three Vietnam War vets who have reunited after 30 years and embark on a bittersweet road trip to bury a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.

Not exact matches

A group of Afghan vets who went to court to fight the slashing of benefits were informed, in response, that the Harper government has torn up the social contract with vets that has been in place since World War I. Fantino's department, in the midst of all the cutbacks, returned $ 1.13 billion of unspent funds, and then announced that $ 200 million of that would be returned to improve services.

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

A 99 - year - old World War II veteran who regretted skipping the chance to meet some of the nation's last Civil War veterans in 1940 is on a mission to visit all 50 states so people who've never met a WWII vet...

As the youngest of six children, his father Jack, a blue - collar, Navy vet of the Korean War, union man and labor advocate who worked for Con Edison for over fifty years, taught him the importance of hard work, dedication, and commitment to community.

The petition by Mann, who identifies himself as a lawyer, Iraq war vet, author, actor and film maker, is carried by the online petition site Change.org.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> A 99 - year - old World War II veteran who regretted skipping the chance to meet some of the nation's last Civil War veterans in 1940 is on a mission to visit all 50 states so people who've never met a WWII vet can finally meet one.

In the middle of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and partially you can put this at the feet of Jeffrey Ling, who oversees DARPA, saw a lot of vets coming back without limbs.

Music Within (R for profanity, sexual reference and drug use) Docudrama chronicles the true story of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) a severely hearing - impaired Vietnam vet who returns from the war to dedicate his life to speaking out on behalf of Americans with disabilities.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

Clint Eastwood, who directed this movie, also helmed Grand Torino, the story of another war vet and Letters to Iwo Jima, a look at WWII from the Japanese side of the battlefield.

Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana), the officer in charge of the local Coast Guard station, was a World War II vet who'd seen combat in the Pacific theater.

No, the real MVP is John C. Reilly, who injects the proceedings with regular humor as Hank Marlow, the wildly - bearded World War II vet castaway of the prologue, who has spent the past 29 years living here, losing his mind, missing the Cubs and his wife, and remaining in harmony with the silent natives.

Yet Jimmy and fellow war vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) never hesitated to use violence violence against others, like scalping a foul - mouthed rich guy who ridiculed Jimmy and struck him in the face with his cane as his business ventures went south.

Frank Sinatra plays a World War II returning vet and prospective novelist who goes back to his bourgeois Midwestern hometown.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the «John Carter of Mars» stories, appears as a character here, a young would - be writer (Daryl Sabara of «Spy Kids») reading the journal of his late uncle (Taylor Kitsch), a swarthy, two - fisted Civil War vet searching for gold out West who stumbled instead into another Civil War — this one a thousand years old and millions of miles away.

John Carter (Kitsch) is a civil war vet from Virginia who wants nothing more to do with fighting.

He dons the itchy outfit to play A.A. Milne, a shell - shocked World War I vet who returns to London after combat and finds he can no longer write superficial West End comedies.

These three add a level of class to a film about four mental patients — a child molester, a deranged war vet, a psycho preacher and someone known only as «The Bleeder» — who escape their asylum and attack the family of a new psychiatrist, whom they mistakenly believe killed their old doctor.

With the help of Romanoff and a fellow war vet named Sam Wilson (Mackie, Runner Runner), Rogers is being targeted by good guys and bad guys alike who are out to take him down with deadly force.

A war vet (Anthony Mackie), who was arrested at a speakeasy shows up as well.

Ramsay retreated to Santorini, Greece and began writing, and within less than a year's time, adapted Jonathan Ames» novella You Were Never Really Here about a PTSD Gulf War vet / former FBI agent - turned - addled assassin who gets hired to bust a senator's daughter out of a sex - trafficking ring.

The none - too - bright West Virginian Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), who has recently been laid off as a heavy equipment operator, and his equally dim Iraq War vet brother, Clyde (Adam Driver), who has a prosthetic arm and tends bar, engineer the heist with the help of a gang that also includes bank vault opener extraordinaire Joe Bang (Daniel Craig, with close - cropped blond crewcut), who is set to serve five more months in prison — a minor impediment to his involvement in the robbery, as it turns out.

The opening - night film is Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, a dramedy about aging Vietnam vets reuniting after many years to attend the funeral of one of man's son, who was killed in the Iraq war.

Based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the film stars Affleck as Joe Coughlin, a World War I vet and son of a Boston Police Deputy Superintendent who operates in the criminal underworld during a Prohibition - era Miami.

So with co-writer Daryl Ponicsan he restructured the script and finally got it right as a bridge between two wars — when three Vietnam vets (Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne) take off on a road trip 30 years later to bury Carell's Marine son, who has been killed on duty in the Iraq War.

The Post uses the Vietnam War as it's starting point with Matthew Rhys as Daniel, a vet who witnesses government officials lyingRead More →

The Post uses the Vietnam War as it's starting point with Matthew Rhys as Daniel, a vet who witnesses government officials lying about the progress being made overseas.

Loot (Unrated) Buried treasure reality flick about a couple of blind, World War II vets who enlist the assistance of a sighted guide to search for the priceless gems and other contraband they hid over 60 years earlier while stationed in Austria and the Philippines.

Wright, a «Black Mirror» vet who will next be seen in Steven Spielberg's «Ready Player One» in March and «Avengers: Infinity War» in May, has said in interviews that she hopes the character will inspire more young girls to pursue STEM subjects.

An unflappable World War II vet who embodies a certain cowboy poetry, Hank is Lou's father - in - law.

Josh Ritter, BRIGHT»S PASSAGE (Dial Press) This fable - like first novel from singer - songwriter Ritter is about a World War I vet in Appalachia who has lost his wife and must care for their baby.

The novel is on sale June 28 from The Dial Press, and it's about a World War I vet in Appalachia who has lost his wife and must care for their baby.

So while we sit lemonade, play polo and go on about our business living the illusion of freedom, what do you say to our returning troops who can not find support from our country, our homeless vets, where the suicide rate from returning vets in Iraq is the highest it's ever been in war history, funds for their rehab is either null or shamefully deficient.

For example, you may be a veteran of the Iraq War who has a commitment to helping other vets in your community with family law issues.