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The Incredibles taken from IMDb.com ) /p> p> Thank you Mr. Kramer for your review and insights. I have enjoyed many of Mr. Eastwood's movies in the past. After your comments, I think I'll sit this one out and spend my hard-earned dollars in buying the book and reading the more valuable insights and lessons on heroism from Mr. Bradley directly. br> -- Phil br> Fargo, North Dakota /p>

Clint Eastwood showed his cards, without making us pay first, eons ago, as early as everyone's favorite war movie that they were ashamed to admit that they "enjoyed", i.e., Kelly's Heroes. Eastwood is on the record saying that Kelly's Heroes could have been the greatest anti-war movie of all time but the Hollywood moguls just wouldn't let them do what needed to be done. Yeah, right.

It would appear that Clint is willfully ignorant of George Orwell's life experience dictum "to abjure violence, it is necessary to have never experienced it." Maybe Clint's only exposure to violence was a Sandra Locke bad hair day.

Yale Kramer suggests that James Bradley was done wrong by Clint Eastwood, but I doubt it. Bradley is a classic leftist revisionist, dragging tons of irrelevant "history" into his own texts, the sections in Flyboys covering 19th-century American Indians and turn of the century Filipino guerrillas being cases in point. Bradley's presumed respect for the man who gave him life probably doesn't extend to exempting him and his individual heroism from the liberal commandments that Eastwood so capably renders (and Kramer documents).

p>Thanks to the Internet and TAS

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