‘PLATOON’ FIRE
Like Jane Fonda, I was not in favor of American involvement, but I did not have my photograph taken while smiling in the company of anti-aircraft soldiers who were bringing down American airmen, and if I had any tears to shed I would shed them in private and not in the lobby of the Coronet Theater (“After Seeing ‘Platoon,’ Fonda Wept,” by Pat H. Broeske, Jan. 28).
The highly profitable, celluloid adventures of Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone in Vietnam are too disgusting to merit comment.
Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” serves a good purpose in showing war in all its filth, agony and corruption, but, unfortunately, war, like cancer and AIDS, does not go away simply by disapproving of it. Let those who see this magnificent film not lose sight of that fact.
TONY THOMAS
Burbank
Fonda’s revelation that she wept after seeing “Platoon” and Chuck Norris’ reaction to the Vietnam War movie elicited a firestorm of nasty responses from readers. See Page 16.
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