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If you want to see a big bad grown man cry like a baby, make him watch this movie and keep your eyes on him at 92 seconds into the movie and then right to the end of it. To my mind you just dont see too many movies that have this kind of honesty. Colonel michael strobl, who wrote eloquently of them in a widely circulated 2004 article, taking chance is a profoundly emotional look at the military rituals taken to honor its war dead, as represented by a fallen marine killed in iraq, lance corporal chance phelps. Taking chance follows one officer who brings a young marine killed in iraq back to his family and burial ground in wyoming. Michael strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of lance cpl.
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