Taking Chance (2009) - film - this is must see right now

[Moostache]

Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2026, 10:23 AM - Edit history (1)

This film, starring Kevin Bacon, and following the return of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps after his death in active duty in Iraq, should be required viewing for the people so haphazardly gambling the lives of our service men and women and so callously acting with false bravado and childish demeanors. It should likewise be seen by all Americans as our service men and women are being put in the line of duty again.

I am in tears because of this moving tribute (it is a short movie, barely 80 minutes in length) but its message is powerful - when our military is deployed and those sent are killed in action or injured or traumatized a piece of the nation's tattered soul is wounded or killed with them and their families.

To see that disrespected by our current leadership, to watch it be cheapened or insulted or degraded is too much to bear. If you have not seen this film, and are able to do so, please see it. Please help restore some dignity and honor for those who have fallen in any of our actions before or to come. Please do so because the fallen and their fanilies and loved ones deserve so very much more than they are getting right now.

I have long thought that the tragedy at Sandy Hook was the day the soul of America was killed with those 6 year olds, but I was wrong. The soul of America is not found in D.C. or in Congress. It still lives in the hearts and courage of those who serve for me and protect my family, though we will never meet or know each other personally. The utter contempt and disrespect at the highest levels of our government are stains that will never come clean in the future. It is all of our responsibility to bear witness to what is happening, to loudly and passionately denounce it, to protest against it and to honor those who are placed in the ultimate peril by men unworthy to spit shine their shoes.

This nightmare epoch must pass, it must end and we must honor those who risk everything under these current conditions. Please, if there is a god out there, even if there is not, let love, duty, honor, empathy and compassion take back our homeland. nation.

[pat_k]

1. Hear! Hear! (With one objection)

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You say "let love, duty, honor, empathy and compassion take back our homeland."

To me, the United States of America is NOT a "Homeland" -- it is a Nation created based on shared ideas.

When the word "homeland" is used to refer to the United States of America, what I hear is "White Ethnic Homeland."

And I firmly believe that was intended in 2002, when White Nationalists exploited 9/11 to pull the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into their new mega-security agency, which they, very intentionally titled "Department of Homeland Security."

The word homeland is deeply connected to "origin" -- to ethnicity.

That is NOT what the United States is. The ONLY peoples for which this land is a "homeland" are the Native Americans that many of the forebears of those who currently live within our borders attempted, with too much success, to wipe out.

The formation of the Department of Homeland Security was a declaration that immigrants posed a risk to the "security" of the White European "Homeland" of the White Nationalists" fantasies.

It was a VERY INTENTIONAL redefinition of the United States from a Nation to an ethnic Homeland.

I find the word "homeland," when applied to the United States to be an anathema to the values that have driven every single decent thing this Nation has ever managed to accomplish.

[Moostache]

4. Duly noted. Thank you for the info.

[pat_k]

2. "I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps."

Film dedication:

For all the fallen, military and civilian.

[SamKnause]

3. Excellent movie !!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. I'll try to find and watch it