I am always checking out pro Veteran, pro troop sites and I came across a site by an independent filmmaker name Jack Marino. Donna you mentioned in your post about how the vietnam vets consider themselves ‘forgotten’. Well this guy have made a small low budget independent film called FORGOTTEN HEROES and he made it twenty years ago. I recently bought his DVD and he sent me a small press release telling how he was blackballed in Hollywood. His film is the only pro Vietnam film out there because he made it in 1988 and finished it in 1990. Long before Mel’s film. This film is a freaking little gem of a film. It is has a powerful message and a heartfelt tribute to all of our Vietnam vets.
Now to top if off this guy Marino has posted a letter he has received from the President of the United States thanking him for his work on FORGOTTEN HEROES and the film can’t find a release. Marino is selling his film, himself through his web site at
www.forgottenheroesthemovie.com.
Talk about tenacity and persistence this guy is relentless. He even mentioned that certain conservative film festivals won’t play his pro Vietnam veteran film in their festival. This guy is fighting both the anti-military crowd in Hollywood and those that say they support our veterans in the conservative community in Los Angeles. The kicker is now he has a letter from President Bush validating his film and praising his son who is serving in Iraq. Talk about out flanking all his distractors.
His film has a great little story, it was his first time as a director and the cast is all unknown but for William Smith, (Falconetti, Born Losers, Red Dawn) as the defecting General in Vietnam. Marino made a WWII style film in Vietnam and there are NO F-words in this action war drama. Unbelievable!!!
IF all you here who support our veterans, especially our Vietnam veterans and don’t want to see Vets portrayed as baby killers, then FORGOTTEN HEROES is the small indie film for you. I loved the the film, you can tell he had nothing to work with and this guy just refused to give up and say die.
He even has a quote from a retired General thanking the Vietnam vets and welcoming them home and this General was a platoon leader in vietnam in 1966. I am going to help this guy get the word out to everyone on these blogs. I put my money where my mouth was and bought his film to show him support for sticking by this film against all the odds against him.
He also is donating 25% of his gross sales to the THE AMERICAN VETERANS DISABLED FOR LIFE MEMORIAL FUND. So $5.00 from each DVD sale if going to help our vets from all of our wars for freedom.
We all sit here and blog up a storm about that there are no films out there that support the troops and vets. Well I happen to stumble on to this site www.forgottenheroesthemovie.com and we have one hell of a fighter out there and all he wants is for us to buy his DVD so all of the Vietnam vets will know, that there is a film that says. THANK YOU and WELCOME HOME BROTHERS.
Check it out, the letter from the President is awesome!
