Good Morning, Vietnam

   Going off of the theme of American movies based on wars the American military fought in, this post will talk about a movie from 1987 called Good Morning, Vietnam.  While most war movies are based on the battles fought during wars (Saving Private Ryan etc.), Good Morning, Vietnam is a movie who's main character never actually fought a battle in Vietnam.  Adrian Cronauer was a radio DJ who worked in Vietnam as the morning host for the radio program the soldiers listened to.  In any war, the morals of the soldiers is very low as they are homesick and just want to return to America and see all of their families.  Vietnam was especially hard on the morals of soldiers for two reasons.  They had initially believed that the war would be very short, so the fact that it was taking so long was very tough on the soldiers.  Vietnam also was a war in which it seemed the Americans couldn't really win, so it was tough for soldiers to fight when they didn't think they could win the war. When the American military hired Cronauer as the radio DJ, the previous host had been a very boring, by the book host, which the military officials loved, but the soldiers couldn't bear.  Adrian Cronauer was anything but boring, playing rock and roll music and cracking jokes all morning long (just like Mr. Stewart!).  Rock and roll was a very new type of music that was looked down upon by the military officials who were older, but beloved by the young soldiers.  Cronauer's mix of up beat music and hilarious jokes lifted the morals of American soldiers and helped make a very difficult war a little bit more bearable.  Good Morning, Vietnam features Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer and is a very historically interesting and hilarious movie.