We Were Soldiers

Mel Gibson stars in this true story about a battle in the Vietnam war. It is filled with all the sadness and brutality any good, steriotypical war movie should have. I saw it on TV, so it was littered with commercial breaks, ads on the bottom of the screen and a slightly fuzzy picture, but the sound was good, and the effect was almost perfect. I got the impression that there was a little gore and language edited out, but I guess that is why it's rated R...
About a third of the movie focuses on the wives of the soldiers being nervous, and taking on the postman's job of telling the bad news to other wives whose husbands have been killed in combat.
A terrific war movie.