The Messenger (1 Viewer)

[MCKENNA77]

Not sure any of you dudes have seen this film as it was on the small independent film circuit - at least where I live it was. The setting of the movie is what is unique and the best part. Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster(3:10 Yuma - Crowe's lead man) have the terrible duty of informing families in the States that their loved ones have been KIA. I know for one that I could never be capable of performing a duty such as that. I think the film also serves as a reminder of the human cost of war and how families have to bear the direct burden or strain of that cost. I wish they could all come home alive but lets face that doesnt happen.

 

[DCN1898]

I haven't seen the Messenger, and I have to say for me, that I don't really want to. For me, Taking Chance was a near perfect movie and I will stick with that one. Some day I will see The Messenger on DVD.
I have done death notifications and they are very tough. I wish that they could all come home also.

 

[Louis Badolato]

My wife's nanny, Ianthe, a naturalized American Citizen originally from Barbados, who raised my wife and her 4 siblings, helps care for my two children, and is part of our family, had a son who was one of the U.S. Marines killed by the suicide bombers in the Marine Barracks in Lebenon back in the 1980's. My wife still remembers the U.S. government car pulling into their driveway, and the officer informing her of her son's death, and Ianthe just falling to her knees hysterically crying.

I cannot imagine a more thankless job than having to inform family members of the death of American servicemen. To this day, when I go to Ianthe's house to pick her up and bring her to visit us, I always touch the photo of her handsome young son in his dress uniform, framed along with his medals, and think about all the brave young marines who died with him.