Sentences with phrase «war vets in»

As a crippled war vet in Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama, Cruise turns from a starry - eyed, clean - cut soldier to a vocal, harried Vietnam protestor.

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In 2010, on the war's 50th anniversary, South Korea's then - President Lee Myung - Bak wrote a letter to U.S. vets, saying: «Korea today is a vibrant democracy with a robust economy and we are actively promoting peace and stability around the world... We wish to dedicate these achievements to you.»

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 fact, there are a goodly number of WWII veterans, as well as Vietnam and Korean war vets.

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 AsianIn 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 Asianin 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 Asianin 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.

So with a group of true believers praying in the name of Jesus for a group of truly deserving Iraq war amputee vets with Jesus» promise that nothing is impossible and Jesus» «If ye ask in my name, I will do it.»

The 1950s saw the rise of the Civil Rights movement, the end of polio, the opening of the Disneyland theme park and a boom in births as World War II vets came home and started families.

Wars keep on killing: Gulf War illness causes DNA damage in vets, according to new research (Naturalnews.com)- 10 Hours Ago

Chemung County Nursing Facility resident and World War II vet Jim Roush will be the first resident to participate in...

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...

Also, I'm not even going to try to parse the internal battle going on in the Buffalo area Tea Party movement, which has been roiling over NY - 26 for some time now, thanks to the GOP's rejection of Iraq War vet David Bellavia's candidacy.

Max Rose, a Democratic 31 - year - old decorated war vet, kicked off his campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Dan Donovan in the Staten Island.

Iraq war vet Nathan Martin is the David against a Goliath millionaire Republican in the primary.

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.

As a veteran, he expressed concern for all disabled vets, particularly those returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Malcolm Rifkind - arrogant, notable for making a remark to US Congressmen including a certain Senator John McCain and some other Vietnam vets that they had no concept of what it was like to be at war, went off in a huff when he wasn't given the role of Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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.

Some of the vets in the study went all the way back to World War I, with the more recent vets having served in the first Iraq War in the early «90s.

«Khamisiyah Plume» linked to brain and memory effects in Gulf War vets.»

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 limbIn 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 limbin 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.

Aiming to procure insurance money for his family, Emmet Foley, a Korean War vet, attempts to commit suicide in the»50s and is soon locked up in a Florida state mental hospital after being wrongly declared insane.

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.

«The Last Samurai» (Warner Bros.) Tom Cruise stars as Civil War vet Nathan Algren, invited by Japan's emperor to train his 1870s army in the art of modern warfare.

Without spoiling much in the way of plot: The man in question will turn out to be an Iraq war vet through whom Dixon redeems himself, though not the way the reader might be expecting.

Klaue's posse includes Erik Killmonger (Michal B. Jordan, Coogler's star in «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), an American war vet whose true identity is revealed halfway through the action, making clear what's hinted at in the film's Oakland - set prologue.

Taking on the role of Vietnam vet Dieter Dengler, the downed Navy pilot Herzog first chronicled in his 1997 documentary «Little Dieter Needs to Fly,» Bale suffered for his art, conveying the hardships Dengler endured as a prisoner of war.

While this is certainly a message that few would find fault with, with better films about the experience of combat vets returning home, setting the film up in the Iraq War and then delivering manipulative and mawkish drama where realistic portrayals should be isn't the way to go about it.

Is it me, or does it seem far too unrealistic that all of these war vets involved in that ambush happen to live in the same town and intersect with one another in more than one way?

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.

When last we saw Captain America's best friend Bucky in Civil War, he voluntarily chose to go back into a coma in the labs of Wakanda, while the state - of - the - art scientists there figured out how to remove the programming that transformed him from hunky one - armed W.W. II vet into a hunky one - armed killing machine.

Woody Harrelson relishes the opportunity to chew on every piece of scenery in sight, while Casey Affleck offers nuanced support as the troubled Iraq War vet literally fighting his way out of debt to local loan shark Willem Dafoe.

A scene where Adrien Brody, as Gulf War I vet Jack Starks, wanders away from his loony bin down a long tunnel in a Robert Frost wood and Dr. Lorenson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) stumbles after him demonstrates both, with Deming painting a beautiful landscape from paint pots full of bleak, oppressive isolation.

Taking over control points in the adversarial modes ends up as aggressive games of tug - of - war that any shooter vet is more than familiar with.

It's about three ageing Vietnam vets — played by Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell — transporting the body of a soldier killed in the Iraq War through the northeastern states in the grip of winter.

What's particularly harrowing is that the survivor in question — a ghostly, reclusive war vet named Joe (Joaquin Phoenix)-- tries to exorcise his own demons by extricating others from traumatic situations.

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.

DUNCAN»S DOUGHBOYS By Karen Jaehne In the never ending saga of the war that wouldn't die, Vietnam vet turned filmmaker Patrick Duncan loads the viewer into his backpack in 84 Charlie MopiIn the never ending saga of the war that wouldn't die, Vietnam vet turned filmmaker Patrick Duncan loads the viewer into his backpack in 84 Charlie Mopiin 84 Charlie Mopic.

Gist: Brick witnesses the loss and extraordinary risk of five middle - aged and senior war vets, steel foremen, and fathers and grandfathers coming out for the first time as transgender women in the hyper - masculine culture of the Pacific Northwest.

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.

The film opens in Washington D.C. on Cap literally running circles around Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), war vet.

«Street Warrior»: War vet returns home to battle corruption and take part in an underground fight club; with Max Martini of TV's «The Unit.»

Korean War vet Lucas (Mitchum) returns home and sets about working for his family's moonshine business, making perilous deliveries in a modified hot rod.

Character exploration of PTSD - suffering war vets as well as studies of mental illness and masculinity is a topic that has been well tread in film.

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.

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.

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.

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.