The Deer Hunter is about the effects of that war on all of them and all around them. All from Slavic background as my family is and in a time when those of us more educated and more sophisticated and knowing better dodge the draft, these guys enlist and go to Vietnam. Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage are three mill workers from small town Clairton, Pennsylvania. ![]() So when they are called it had better not be in an unrighteous or fruitless cause. They are the folks whose blood gets spilled in the wars we fight. Make no mistake about it, these people for all their personal faults are the backbone of America. And the grandson of one my uncles recently served in Iraq as a marine. They worked in the same factory jobs that these men do and answered the call of their country at war, but in a whole different time. ![]() ![]() I can identify a lot with The Deer Hunter because my mother's family were of Ukranian background and my relatives on her side were a whole lot like the people we see here from Clairton, Pennsylvania.
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