Pilla: Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
McKnight: Well shoot back!
Randy D. Shughart: My love, you are strong and you will do well in life. I love you and my children deeply. Today and tomorrow, each day grow and grow. Keep smiling and never give up, even when things get you down. So, in closing, my love... Tonight, tuck my children in bed warmly. Tell them I love them. Then hug them for me. And give them both a kiss good night for Daddy.
Struecker: It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Atto: You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.
General Garrison: 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war, Mr. Atto. That's genocide.
General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
Durant: Where's the rescue squad?
Shughart: We're it.
Struecker: No one gets left behind, you know that.
Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
Garrison: You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.
Abdullah Hassan: You Americans don't smoke anymore. You live long, dull and uninteresting lives.
Todd Blackburn: Well, I'm here to kick some ass.
Answer: The answer to this question is quite simple. Whenever any book is put on to the screen things must be glorified in order to catch the eye of a film goer. In movies like this one, heroes, brave men, and down right bad ass characters are what people need to see. If the movie was just like the book, there would be just a whole bunch of equally important characters, which is something very rarely seen in movies. So in short they made sgt Eversmann a main character simply because the movie needed one.
That makes sense but does anyone know why Eversmann was the specific soldier chosen as the focus for the movie?