Restrepo and Fallen Angels

1. The first guy to die in both the movie and the book greatly impacted how some of their comrades felt

2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too

3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels

4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs

5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief

6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home

7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were

8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong

9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong

10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them



What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.