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On the Media

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🗓️ 5 May 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.
0:10.8	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:12.1	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:13.6	This weekend, the fourth Rambo film opened 20 years after the first one.
0:18.4	Who are they to protest me, huh?
0:20.3	Who are they?
0:21.1	Unless they've been me and been there
0:22.6	and know what the hell they're yelling about?
0:24.4	It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo.
0:26.8	It's all in the past now.
0:28.1	For you?
0:29.0	For me, civilian life is nothing.
0:31.7	Back there, I can fly a gun ship.
0:33.4	I could drive a tank.
0:34.7	I was in charge of a million-dollar equipment. Back here, I can't even hold the job.
0:39.4	John Rambo, played by Sylvester Stallone, is an American soldier brave and strong and twisted.
0:46.2	He is, of course, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
0:48.6	I say, of course, because there is a persistent and pervasive stereotype of the Vietnam vet,
0:54.4	fueled by such films as the deer hunter coming home or born on the 4th of July,
0:59.0	that is not the picture of mental health.
1:01.8	People, gosh, Rudy, forget that most people came back from Vietnam
1:06.2	and just went back into civilian life.
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