Then, we saw a naked girl and her little brother, their faces contorted in agony and terror, running toward us — away from the smoke, from the napalm the A1 had dropped on the town. South Vietnamese ...

We Were Soldiers is battlefield pornography posing ... people who simply want to watch other people die in obscene detail. Napalm burns away a man's cheeks as someone desperately hacks off his ...

such as the use of helicopters and napalm in "Apocalypse Now" (1979), starring Marlon Brando; and the use of tunnels and firepower in "We Were Soldiers" (2002), starring Mel Gibson. He looks at ...