Sentences with phrase «war vet»

I am a 24, 25 this month, year old war vet.

That is what 80 year war vets say, not children!

What's the Fuss: 1980s TV action gets a reboot with this new version of The A-Team, which shifts the Vietnam vet back story to a group of Iraq War vets who become mercenaries for hire.

«Thunderbolt and Lightfoot» (1974) Michael Cimino's feature directing debut starred Clint Eastwood (who also produced the film and hired Cimino for the gig) as a Korean War vet who took in a young drifter, played by Jeff Bridges.

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.

Michael Shannon, Henry Thomas, Isaiah Washington and Patrick Fugit star as Civil War vets who rob a bank and flee to an abandoned plantation that turns out to house an evil entity.

With tens of thousands of Iraq War vets with PTSD returning home, therapists increasingly face the challenge of helping them with their troubled marriages.

Cruise and Oliver Stone take on the story of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam War vet whose post-war experience led him to fight for better veteran care.

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.

Based on a true story, a Korean war vet named Emmett Folley (played by Gary Oldman) can't adjust to life back home and has a crisis with the law.

ALBANY — An upstate assemblyman raised nearly $ 1.8 million through a political - action committee he formed to back Iraq and Afghanistan war vets running for Congress — but only $ 91,500 found...

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.

Witness one tradition that took place recently: We had more than 150 World War II and Korean War vets in our building the day before Veterans Day,» said Principal Tony Pallija.

Eric Hollenbeck didn't plan to be a time traveller, or a museum curator, or a model of how to take care of troubled youth or returning war vets.

But this sequel by Oakland - bred Ryan Coogler leaves the matter there and tells of T'Challa's war to retain his crown; he's threatened first by Afrikaner villain Klaue (Andy Serkis, hugely enjoying himself) as well as Erik (Michael B. Jordan), an African - American war vet with a strong personal connection to the royal family.

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.

«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.

Star Wars vet Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film with his son, Jon Kasdan.

Star Wars vet Lawrence Kasdan wrote Solo with his son, Jon Kasdan.

Miles Teller is promoting Thank You For Your Service, a film about war vets that sounds like a necessary story to tell.

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.

Petrie's protagonist is Peter Ash, an Iraq War vet suffering from PTSD.

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

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

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

Or an American Korea War vet?

George Evans, the Patriots» 30 - year - old Gulf War vet forward, had gulled Maryland's Lonny Baxter into foul trouble and limited him to two points.

Many Iraqi War vets eagerly await divine action.

I'm a friendly Harlemite, former war vet, full - time student soon planning to hi to Business School and then build a career and hopefully a family.

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

Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War vet discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12 - foot tall barbarians.

Wayans broke through to a larger audience with I'm Gon na Git You Sucka (1988), a rollicking parody of 1970s blaxploitation flicks which he directed, produced, and starred in — as Jack Spade, a black war vet who heads home to the ghetto, only to discover that his brother Junebug died from an «OG» (or overdose of gold chains).

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.

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.

Kentucky teenager Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) lives with her «mentally alienated» uncle, Emmett Smith (Bruce Willis), a Vietnam vet still traumatized by his war

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They explained Cap's relationship with the Starks, how war vet experiences inform the movie, and whether Steve will get to really fight Nazis in the sequels.

Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquaintance.

Instead of suave and sophisticated George Clooney heading up the large cast of thieves, this time we have Channing Tatum playing war vet Jimmy Logan.

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.

This dramatic and introspective Canadian movie about a Civil War vet making his way through a zombie apocalypse plays like a 19th century feature film version of The Walking Dead.

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.

Even Dwight seems cognizant of appearing like a first - timer, like a failed attempt to Rambo - ize a wound, or the rejection of the wisdom from a local war vet (Devin Ratray), which seems to have less to do with egotism and more to do with feeling even more out of his element.

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.

Christian Bale is very good as a disabled Civil War vet struggling to make it as a farmer who gets caught up in the capture of Russell Crowe's famous outlaw.

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.

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.