대릴 포닉선의 동명 소설 원작의 리처드 링클레이터의 드라마 코미디 영화로 이라크 전쟁에서 전사한 아들을 국내로 후송하게 되면서 벌어지게 되는 이야기를 그린다
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
전쟁이 발발하자 미군 장교의 부인 재클린 비셋은 이영후를 운전기사로 삼아 당시에는 엄청 귀한 물건인 승용차를 타고 피난을 간다. 그러다 폭격 맞아서 이영후가 전사하고 이제는 재클린 비셋이 직접 운전해서 피난을 간다. 도중 한강 철교를 건너는데, 거기서 만난 웬 노인의 부탁에 의해 어린이들을 승용차에 태우고 간다. 그리고 전쟁은 점점 악화되고 맥아더(로런스 올리비에)는 전전긍긍하다가 신에게 기도를 올린다. 신은 인천을 공략하라는 해법을 제시했고, 맥아더는 그러한 신의 계시에 따라 인천을 공략한다. 인천 공략에 성공하자 맥아더는 이승만과 껴안고 환호한다.
In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785 two American ships were brought back to Algiers; in the winter of 1793, eleven American ships, their crews chained, were in the hands of the Dey of Algiers. To ensure the freedom of movement of their merchant fleet, the U.S.A was forced to conclude treaties with the main Barbary states, paying considerable sums of money as a guarantee of non-aggression. With Morocco, treaty of 1786, 30,000 dollars; Tripoli, November 4, 1796, $56,000; Tunis, August 1797, $107,000. But the most expensive and the most humiliating was with the dey of Algiers, on September 5, 1795, "peace and friendship treaty" which cost nearly a million dollars (including 525,000 ransom for freed American slaves) , with the obligation to pay 20,000 dollars on the arrival of each new consul and 17,000 dollars in annual gifts to senior Algerian officials...
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