starring Barry Pepper, Jesse Bradford, Robert Patrick, Ryan Phillippe (add more)
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The monument was dedicated in November 1954, but Rene Gagnon (and Ira Hayes for that matter) didn't look one day older during the ceremony than during the battle 10 years earlier. [Rene was 20 during the fighting and about 29 during the ceremony. Ira was about 22 during the fighting and 31 during the ceremony. People grow older but they don't really change so much during that time...]
Corrected by James Storck
There was a point in the movie where an elderly Rene Gagnon told Doc's son that he'd seen Ira only once since he'd left the fundraising tour. That's when he passed him on the road and didn't pick him up. About 10 minutes later in the movie, the three were at the Marine Memorial dedication together, which would make it the 2nd time Rene had seen Ira. [That wasn't elderly Rene it was elderly Keyes Beech.]
Corrected by James Storck
Toward the end of the movie, Doc's son was narrating and said he never knew about any of this until after his father died. Within seconds, he and his father (while on his death bed) are talking about the whole thing while he is obviously very much alive. [He was told all this while his father was on his death bed. It takes time to process information under stressful conditions, and saying he did not know any of this until after his father died is consistent with a person being unclear on things until stress is over. He also may have had to check on some facts to confirm what his father had told him, which also would not have been done until after his father died.]
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