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Platoon

by Shelli Wheaton

After hear- ing many comments such as, “Oh, that was such a good movie!“ I finally had the opportunity to see ‘Pla- toon’ last week.

There has been much controversy surround:

ing the authenticity of Pla- which is about the The story

toon, Vietnam War.

This week, Jeremy Lowther, a 4th year Psychology major, expresses his views on the true meaning of life.

Being the middle of March, we now have the end of another school year in site. the big rush is on; papers, presentations, and exams are approach- ing their deadlines and in about a month and a half, we will have cause for cele- bration.

For the past eight months we have been striving to coin- plete our courses and now that is about to be realized. But what happens after it is all over? we might go out and celebrate, but somehow it might feel a little empty. We have achieved our goal, but now what?

Sometimes when we our goals in lite bring all the

achieve it doesn’t satisfaction we thought it would. Somehow there is something missing. but we can’t quite put our finger on it. There must be more to life: what is it’s meaning?

As humans we all have one thing in common: we

Reality Talk

unfolds with a young volun- teer soldier who is shipped to a camp near Cambo- dia, how he learns to fit in with the uneducated mili- tary men in the camp, and the trials he endures until he is shipped home; mirac- ulously still alive.

What the film empha- sizes is the hopelessness of the war within that particu- lar military camp. The hat- tles fought are hardly a test

of skill in outwitting the en- emy, but battles between the men themselves. There is an ongoing struggle for each man to prove his own sense of worth in a pathetic war that no man wants to be in.

Yet ‘Platoon’ is hardly a battle of wits either. The senselessness of Vietnam

WHAT CAN FILL THIS EMPTINESS ?

“God is the filler”

God. When we were still under construction, he installed in

were created by

us an empty space (other This

space would remain hollow

than our stomachs). in us and, like our stom- aches, desire to be filled.

can’t fill The only thing that can fill it is

However, we this space with food.

a personal friendship with God. He made it that way. because he wants to share in our lives.

There is one problem, though. We try. to fiil this space with things other than God. We might think

turned the camp into a psy- chotic mess of abandoned morals. There was noth- ing the men could identify with except the bleakness of death in its most agoniz- ing ways.

I still have not been able to describe this film in words. I do know, how- ever, that ‘good’ certainly is not it. To see this movie

is nothing short of an ex- hilarating experience, and controversial or not, it is an experience meant to be shared by everyone.

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Perhaps especially to the people responsible for sending fellow human be- ings to that war.

that if we gain a job with a great salary, it will fill this cavity within us. Or maybe if we have a relation-

ship with a particular per- son we will feel whole. Maybe this vacuum in- side hasn*t been demanding attention that strongly, but one thing's for sure: it will arise sooner or later. When it does, we need to know how to fill it. Just talk to God— he’s actually very We need to tell him that we want te get things right with him, by asking for forgiveness because of

real.

what we've done to him.

His Son took our place on the cross, so our ticket to heaven is paid in full. He wants to give us abun- life. He will fill

space inside of us.

dant that That’s when we will experi- ence true satisfaction in our hearts, and we will know our true meaning and pur- pose in life. He'll give us peace and relief.

However. don't wait until the gap inside de- mands attention—- we can

do it now. Do it now, be-

_ cause if you wait, it may be

too late.

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