FIRST BLOOD (RAMBO) is Pure Emotion * MOVIE REACTION | First Time Watching ! (1982)

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[@k.delpino1124]

Keep it going through the series. #LetsGo

[@rafaelmeira7033]

Rafael

[@michaelperussina2835]

@@RuntotheMovies you two look like protestors for any cause or insta pics

[@MarvRoberts]

Stallone actually broke his rib on the tree jump. The anguished cry when he landed was real. He did that stunt, himself.

[@MrMoggyman]

Stallone did one third of the tree jump and bust a rib. The other two thirds were done by stunt men.

[@mnomadvfx]

Yesn't. I'm sure he acted out something similar later, but realistically all film audio is recorded in a studio, because set audio is hopelessly corrupted by sounds from the filming equipment, generators, environmental sound etc etc. They keep the set or location audio only as a reference point to resync the ADR done in post production.

[@markmartineau1015]

As young boys we all bought one of those survival knives. They had sewing kit, fishing line ,cord saw, flint and compass. Never used anything but the knife but it was cool lol. Also what needs to be remembered is these were a bunch of 18 year old boys that had to deal with coming home and being crapped on unlike previous service members who were given respect for their service.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

I had one in the early 90s. I swapped a vhs p¤rn tape for the knife with one of my buddies in high school. I've bought a few commemorative Rambo knives over the year's, but none compare to that one I had in the 90s.

[@danieldavis3761]

Yeah, I had one of those knives. One of the first purchases I made when I started working. Didn't know how to sew or read a compass, couldn't have started a fire at the time, but I had to have that knife. LOL

[@arconeagain]

They were in show bags here in Oz. Kids would bring their Rambo knife to primary school.

[@waterbeauty85]

Two of points from Rambo's monologue - the hatred he received upon his return to the United States and his friend being killed by a boobytrapped shoeshine box - give a couple of significant contributing factors behind the severity of PSTD in Vietnam vets. First, there was no safe place to decompress. Even away from a combat zone, seemingly innocent "friendlies" could be trying to kill you or helping those who were. Second, when you were home, the American public treated you as their enemy (e.g. when it came to light that the North Vietnamese were routinely torturing American P.O.W.s. a popular celebrity said the P.O.W.s were war criminals who deserved it). This added to the constant feeling of being under threat, and it made it more difficult for vets to trust anyone enough to reach out for help.

[@michaelriddick7116]

Great pair of books talking about that were written by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman; "On Combat" and its sequel "On Killling" ... its heartbreaking 😢💔😭

[@chandie5298]

Hanoi Jane....disgusting human being

[@kaybevang536]

Who was that celebrity?

[@waterbeauty85]

​@@kaybevang536 I won't say because people can change after half a century, and we've all said or done things when we were young that we would take back now if we could. The person was well known for this back then, so if you were around then, you could probably guess.

[@waterbeauty85]

@@michaelriddick7116 Thank you. I'm going to look those books up today.

[@masamune2984]

In the novel, the Colonel knows Johnny can never truly “go home,” and after Rambo says “Please…”, he gives him the only peace he knows how, and shoots and kills and John out of mercy. Both the novel and film are brutal and truthful, and wonderfully well-done.

[@Sizzlik]

Dang..didnt knew it was a novel. Off to amazon and getting a copy..thx.

[@emd78s]

There's an alternate movie ending too where Troutman killed him... sort of. He held the gun but Rambo forced him to pull the trigger

[@xensonar9652]

He's a lot less sympathetic in the novel though.

[@mrcrhartman]

I remembered it differently, thought Troutman shotgunned Rambo who was putting rounds into Chief (not Sheriff) Teasle from a concealed position in a shed or something. I gotta go back and revisit that book.

[@Deadim._.09]

@@emd78s what movie?

[@DanielRamosMilitaryWiz]

Stallone’s monologue at the end always brings a tear to my eye as his character was expressing so much of what our Vietnam Veterans felt. It makes First Blood work on a much deeper level than just an action film. The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was a very long, bloody, and painful conflict. Over time, the war had become extremely controversial and unpopular, leaving the country bitterly divided. In previous wars the United States had emerged victorious, but Vietnam ultimately ended in failure. A lot of the negative stigma associated with the war fell on the veterans who came back home. Many faced scorn or indifference. They didn’t receive the same kind of fanfare or benefits that veterans of previous conflicts like World War II had recieved. Many struggled to readjust to society given their traumatic experiences in Vietnam. Sylvester Stallone captures so much of the loneliness that these veterans felt. Unfortunately there wasn’t widespread awareness of PTSD back in the early 1980s. Even if the officers here did understand what was going on with Rambo, Deputy Galt clearly didn’t “Give a s**t.” Films like First Blood helped bring a light to issues regarding PTSD with returning veterans. I could be mistaken but I believe that’s a compass (12:20). There is a small survival kit inside the handle of the knife. There is something else important that wasn’t covered in the film. The novel that this is based on reveals that Sheriff Will Teasle was a Korean War Veteran. He resents the fact that many like him have been forgotten for their own service and sacrifices. Korea is often regarded in the United States as the “Forgotten War” because it occurred right after World War II, and a decade before the Vietnam War. He also has a prejudiced view towards Vietnam Veterans as unemployed and scruffy. This explains Teasle’s initial hostility towards Rambo. (41:45) It’s possible that Rambo could have escaped, but of course that’s no guarantee. In his mindset he’s in combat just like in Vietnam, and Sheriff Teasle made this war personal. Rambo is focused on completing his objective of eliminating the enemy, which in this case is Sheriff Teasle. Thank you again Hannah and Toy! ❤ You ladies are so wonderful. If you want to watch the Rambo sequels, the character evolves into the muscle bound action hero that came to define the 80s, but I think you’ll still love Stallone’s portrayal of the tormented Vietnam War hero.

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

I love the detail of him throwing off his ammo when explains his friend being all over him.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Thanks so much for so much elaboration into this story.

[@da90sReAlvloc]

​@@RuntotheMovies you ladies should react to purely belter

[@backstagepassreactions8225]

@@RuntotheMovieswhat happened to the Equalizer 2 and 3

[@TheRealRodent]

The best PTSD movie ever made. Nobody really realises though, Sheriff Teasle is also a Vet, and served in Korea. The Korean War Vets also suffered PTSD and mental health problems but they were forgotten about by the public and the press because Vietnam was such a huge deal. To defend Teasle a little: The story of Teasle is he resents Rambo, but probably doesn't realise it, because Rambo and Rambo's comrades got all the press, good and bad, and Teasle got forgotten. Good press or bad, doesn't matter, Teasle and his comrades, got left out. It was as if it didn't happen. Teasle also shows behaviours of someone with PTSD in that he became a hard-ass Sheriff, someone with authority. And his behaviour AS the Sheriff is hard, brutal and unbending, which is another post-trauma defence mechanism. When a Vietnam Vet, someone he (maybe subconsciously) despises, comes into his town, he immediately goes into a passive-offence-is-the-best-defence, disguised as kindness and duty "This town doesn't want vagrants, and I've been tasked with making sure that doesn't happen, get out of my town, and I'll even drive you out to the border to be nice". That's a PTSD trait. Passive aggressive, but with hints of genuine, actual threat... and when Rambo crosses Teasle's line, the threat is then brought forward without a second thought. Teasle has something to protect, and he has authority to do it in a harsh way should he need to... so, simply, he does. PTSD can make people overly protective of what they have, paranoid even, and they tend to go OTT with how they keep control over a situation... and that's the point of Teasle. Teasle NEEDS to have control over who does and doesn't come into his town, he NEEDS to have full control and authority in every situation, even standing against the Army and telling them this is "his town". A sure fire red flag for PTSD.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Thanks so much for this insight. Yes, this definitely helps explain the character's actions. In a way Teasle, is as sad of a character as Rambo.

[@danhair]

Everything about that sounds very interesting and I honestly didn’t know that about the character. My one confusion is that the Vietnam vets were getting a lot of good and bad publicity especially at the end. Why didn’t Teasel feel some kind of camaraderie to Rambo? They both fought in wars that had not succeeded but at least Teasel could stick a pin in South Korea existing, Vietnam’s was completely lost and the war, at that point, must have seemed pointless and all the lives lost for nothing.

[@kwadwotuffour5529]

Great points. And of course, whatever happened with Teasel, is not Rambo's fault.n rambo didnt deserve any of that​@@danhair

[@chrisyazzie8179]

I've seen this movie a million times and this is one of the best explanations to Teasle's character and why. Awesome.

[@Zellio2011]

Teasle also didnt have it as bad as Rambo, korean vets werent treated the way vietnam vets were coming home.

[@morleymobproductionz]

12:27 That was a compass from the bottom of his knife. ‘I could have killed them all, I could have killed you! In town you’re the law, out here it’s me! Don’t push it, don’t push it or I’ll give you a war you won’t believe. Let it go, let it go! One of the coldest things ever said in movie history!

[@donnilloyd1355]

COLDEST, yes. But also, TRUE.

[@jmwilliamsart]

I love your response to when the Sheriff asks “Are you telling me that 200 men against your boy is a no-win situation for us?” I’m like ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m telling you!’

[@angusferdinandleonardojone8501]

I feel like people often overlook the battle tactics Rambo uses in his final assault on the town. He cuts their ability to refuel, their ability to get more ammo, and then their electricity. Brilliant war time strategy! His emotions at the end never fail to make me tear up. Sly’s best performance!

[@MattB2603]

So many people know the Rambo character from popular culture which focuses mainly on the sequels. This movie is such a surprise for them.

[@TROUBLESOME.87]

Cat was like "its getting a little tight here lady"

[@LordVolkov]

"That's how accidents happen!" Sly can be really funny at times. For a fast paced quick-witted comedy with Stallone - Oscar

[@AR.WalkerClan]

I agree, one of our favorites

[@namelessjedi2242]

Oscar got bad reviews and bombed, yet I have never actually seen someone watch it and not enjoy it. Funny and clever movie!

[@k.delpino1124]

Based on a best-selling novel from 1972 by David Morrell and released in the same year as Rocky III. The beginning of Sly's 2nd iconic film series and he hadn't intended to make it so. Adapting the novel with balances of the emotion, suspense and action. Looking at the realism of soldiers at war with themselves. PTSD is nothing to play with and soldiers of such woes deserve to heal. Through Rambo's eyes we see the mistreatment of vietnam veterans, uncalled for actions by corrupt, ignorant opposition. Someone on the humble being forced to not back down and fight back. Rambo's struggle and presence definitely gave this town something to think about. The main theme of the score by Jerry Goldsmith is called "It's Been a Long Road". In orchestral form, it's legendary and the song version by Dan Hill is considered underrated. This is one of Stallone's best as actor, writer and ultimately becoming an action icon in his career. The late Richard Crenna as Col. Trautman was perfect casting. He put a face on what makes him Rambo's mentor and only real friend. The sequels make Rambo more of an action hero. But to purely understand the mind of such a character is to remember where it all started. Btw, the original and alternate endings of this first installment are Incomparable.

[@michaelblaine6494]

I’m always relieved when someone else gets all that out first😂

[@Raven5150]

In the book rambo kills himself, Stallone knew this would be a franchise so they changed it to that epic monologue

[@k.delpino1124]

@@Raven5150 yea I know. Either way, it had some affect.

[@GodlessScummer]

@@Raven5150 there was an ending to this movie where Rambo does kill himself at the end. However test audiences reacted very negatively to it. I really like the original novel First Blood but I think it really surprises people who have seen the film first to see how different the characters of Rambo and Teasle are.

[@AbbyNormL]

@@Raven5150​​⁠Actually that is incorrect. There were alternate endings to the movie, in one of which Rambo kills himself. In the original book, Rambo is shot in the stomach by Teasle and Col. Trautman shoots Rambo in the head. Sheriff Teasle dies of his wounds. In the book, Rambo is not a character you can sympathize with as much as the movie. He kills most of the cops before he lets Teasle go. He also kills many of the State Police and National Guard troops. There is also no giant survival knife in the book.

[@tonyb7615]

My Dad was in nam. He couldn't talk about it to anyone. To civilians he was a baby killer like Rambo. To veterans, he was privileged because he was a firefighter airman on a base that meant he got good food and was mostly always safe. In reality his job was to put out napalm fire and got shot at plenty, but only had a few patrol guys to cover him, and if they didn't like you, you'd just get shot. Being on a base, he saw a ton of our guys coming back looking like ground beef. And they all hated him because he never had to go far from base. There was only one small raid on the base where he actually had his rifle and used it, but it was nothing serious. I grew up going to the vfw with him every few weeks to get good cheap food, but he almost never talked to anyone and they almost never talked to him. Based on age, they knew he was too young to be Korea. And so so there was a mutual understanding, to just leave him alone. They'd also be really jealous of his working as a civilian contractor at a cushy air force base for the rest of his civilian life and generally had it better than most. He died of cancer that his fireman gear (asbestos) gave him 20 years ago. I miss him every day. He was going to retire and buy a semi and start a independent small time business with my bro and I and got sick a year before his retirement. When he was working 24 on and 24 hours off, he drove trucks part time. His way of dealing, was to jeep his hands busy. He was never home.

[@RuntotheMovies]

Producer's note: Thank you so much for sharing such an intimate and heartfelt memory of your father. Sorry for your loss.

[@robertoliver7368]

This is the best Rambo movie.

[@rayhunter-o3w]

My brother was 15 years older than me. He quit college to join the Navy in 1967 and he went to Viet Nam. He was different, according to his friends and cousins, when he came home in 1972. I was old enough to know him from about the mid-70s on. I thought he was really cool and tough. In May of 1981 he couldn't go on anymore and he played Russian Roulette until he put a bullet through his head. He was 32 years old. My own son will be 32 in a few months. That's how PTSD manifested in his life and his death was a very hard time for my parents and us kids. Rambo was a character that I suppose a lot of mistreated Viet Nam vets could relate to in one way or another. Thanks for the reaction, ladies.

[@sudonum3108]

PTSD has been around as long as humans have been waging war. It’s not in the interests of the powers that be to acknowledge the catastrophic damage inflicted upon the minions that carry out their orders.

[@MrLorenzovanmatterho]

Amazing how this whole movie turns around in the last 5 minutes!

[@Raven5150]

Rambo only got 8 years for this, the Congressional medal of honor goes s long way

[@jamesfrench7299]

So what year does this film take place? If it's 82 then part 2 is in 1990 at the earliest even though it was released in 85. Maybe the exact years are deliberately ambiguous.

[@nielsdegroot9138]

@@jamesfrench7299 Part 2 is set before the end of his sentence. Early in the movie Trautman gets him temporarily out of prison if he goes on the mission, and "There may be a presedential pardon". So you can't use the full term of his sentece to calculate the year.

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@nielsdegroot9138 forgot all that. 85 it is then.

[@utherdoul2682]

Yeah, that monologue. It's real. Real men really went through that.

[@kingissey2050]

All he wanted was something to eat.

[@samuelspiel8855]

PTSD is still not taken seriously. When I got out of active duty 10 years ago I tried to meet with a VA counsellor. I asked 5 times to see someone and was rejected everytime. They said they didn't believe that I needed therapy.

[@KevinKnight-by4yt]

"I did,nt come to rescue Rambo from you,I came here to rescue you fro him."great line.

[@reservoirdude92]

Brian Dennehy was such a great actor. Underrated as hell.

[@CoastalNomad]

Another Great Performance by Brain Dennehy was the Sheriff/Saloon-Owner in "Silverado".......

[@richardworton4597]

He played a great part in Law and Order SVU episode

[@RuntotheMovies]

Producer's note: we recently filmed a reaction to Cocoon. It'll be heading to our Patreon within the next few weeks.

[@arconeagain]

​@@RuntotheMovies shit hot! That takes me back. Brian had one of those recognisable faces. The other old bloke in Cocoon too.

[@paulanthony5274]

@@arconeagain Was Brian D in FX Murder by illusion with Brian Brown? He also played John Wayne Gacey in a movie about him that was alright.

[@peterschairer488]

Rambo's speech at the end is one of the best ever.

[@bobsylvester88]

Around 12:05. Hannah: Dobermans are so cute. I love them! Toy: I love them too! Me: Uh-Oh…

[@waterbeauty85]

I confess that, when one of your videos first showed up on my KZbin suggestions, I thought "Oh, just another bunch of girls using their cuteness and popular movies to get views," but you actually have very good commentary and discussions, and you've quickly become one of my favorite reaction channels.

[@sparksdrinker5650]

I bet you can’t give an example of that first type of girls you mentioned.

[@Scallycowell]

You could have just called them cute and insightful and left it at that lol

[@martinboyle9163]

​​@@sparksdrinker5650I've seen some reaction channels that are hardly more than an advertisement for their OnlyFans page.

[@waterbeauty85]

@@Scallycowell I could have, but that would have missed the point that there' more to them than pretty faces and "huge tracts of land."

[@Scallycowell]

@@waterbeauty85 jesus

[@arizona_anime_fan]

in WW2 they called PTSD "shell shock" (a phrase handed down from WW1). they studied the phenominon extensively in the Korean war and reclassified its name from "Shell Shock" to "Battle Fatigue" they thought people kept too long in battle would get "mental exhaustion" which would deviate into the symptoms we know as ptsd today. Anyway after korea the Army incorrectly believed that the best way to "prevent" battle fatigue was to rotate soldiers out of combat regularly. The army put this to the test in Vietnam, the Marines however did no such rotations. After the war they had definitive proof that "Battle Fatigue/PSTD" did not have anything to do with "time on the frontlines" as the marines generally had much lower rates of ptsd then the army did. What they found is what caused PTSD was the shift from high stress to low stress. and the more violent that shift, the more rapid that shift the easier the human mind was broken. So a soldier in a high stress environment usually could endure it, get used to it, and suffer almost nothing from it other then the effects of high stress. However if he were rotated out of this high stress environment into a low stress one it would take a long time for his mind to decompress and relax. his body had been working on high stress hormones for a long time, now it was losing those hormones, this created mood shifts (depression) which also lead to substance abuse (drinking/drugs) to cope with the decompression, then they get rotated back into the high stress environment and their mind just snaps. Instant PTSD. They found it wasn't the combat that injured their minds it was the up and down of prolonged high stress, and short low stress. in short yes people knew about shell shock and ptsd coming out of the vietnam war. the problem is, you had two generations of combat vets in this country who had been completely untreated for PTSD (WW2 vets, and Korean war vets) and they felt the vietnam vets were wimps, cowards and losers, so there was almost no support for treating ptsd socially. the korean and ww2 vets lived with their traumas, and they expected the vietnam vets to do so as well. As a result any vietnam vet who saw a psych doc for their issues, would be black listed from working if anyone found out. companies wouldn't hire a "crazy man". so vietnam vets largely had to live with PTSD which was far worse then the WW2 and Korean War vets had to live with because of the Army's attempts to prevent PTSD in vietnam.

[@odywon]

PTSD is something you can never shake. You can have some good days, but something can come out of no where and send you into a tail spin. The Vietnam vets were spat on. I cannot imagine this being worse.

[@zekesanchez1851]

I love Boo, the cat❤🐱 Brian Denehy did an interview, and he said that during the scene when he takes Rambo's knife, he accidentally stabbed himself when he put the knife back in its holster. It was actually that sharp.

[@BulldogMack700rs]

If I made a drinking game out of Toy saying "oh my god" over the last two videos I'd have died several times🤣 awesome stuff girls

[@broodhunter21]

I'm a fan of when the put up "Toy.exe is not responding....."

[@pressman1788]

Gotta add “Jeez Louise” to the drinking game list

[@alexcroft1486]

Or Torys "I know right?" 🤣🤣 love that

[@benitocuevas5159]

In the 80s and into the 2000s we didn't talk about mental health if you wanted to stay in the Army. Going to counseling was a career ender. After the first Gulf War there was an effort made to address a soldiers mental health but you were afraid that if you sought help the stigma would end your career still. Now the military, the VA, and service organizations are working to reduce veteran suicides. It's estimated that 22 veterans commit suicide each day across the US. Great reaction I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. I still tear up at the end with Stallone's dialogue.

[@chrisgrove7829]

This is never what people expect with their first reaction or what they think of when they think Rambo, which is what makes it amazing:)

[@15blackshirt]

After this are four sequels, which are more action packed and shows Rambo against different adversaries. This focuses on the emotional trauma Vietnam veterans faced during and after the war

[@pressman1788]

Toy saying CLUNK when Galt fell out of the helicopter was priceless.👌

[@toy4871]

😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@Chamomileable]

This movie is one of the best showcases of how very misunderstood Stallone is as an actor. When he wants to he can wrench your heart, make you laugh, have you cheering for him or against him. Anything.

[@metalrules1135]

Aside from bringing attention to PTSD and the treatment of returning veterans, the movie helps reveal just what an unconventional war Vietnam had been. There were special forces units doing clandestine things on a scale that hadn't been done before. There actually were men like Rambo who had received unparalleled levels of training and had been fighting behind the scenes. They enemy was a bunch of insurgents who would resort to traps and ambushes in place of pitched battles. It was a war of gruesome close up fighting in small units. Nothing like anything people thought of when they pictured how war looked. Not like WWI or WWII or Korea.

[@65cj55]

''There actually were men like Rambo '' No there wasn't, veterans even protested the movie because of the super hero antics.

[@metalrules1135]

@@65cj55 MACV-SOG was real. Special Forces exist. They are trained well beyond the average soldier and do some pretty insane things. Sure, things were played up for the film, but if you couldn't understand what I meant and took it literally, that's on you.

[@65cj55]

@@metalrules1135 No back peddling, you claimed it as fact, it ain't.

[@metalrules1135]

@@65cj55 Work on your reading comprehension.

[@65cj55]

@@metalrules1135 It's fine....

[@leniobarcelos1770]

20:38 I like Toy's nervous fidgeting with her fingers haha. It's cute.

[@toy4871]

😅😅😅😁😁❤❤

[@donaldroberts9743]

It was called shell shock, but it was referred as PTSD in the mid 80's due to peoples being phytologically effected by the war in Vietnam...My dad was a Vietnam vet and I was a bombing of Kaddafi vet and we both suffered bad...I would wake up at 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning not being able to sleep...A car would backfire my dad would hit the ground in tears...

[@RuntotheMovies]

Sending much love to you and your dad.

[@harveylee51]

First Blood is such a great movie that often surprises younger viewers who know RAMBO mainly through pop culture as this kick ass soldier , but are surprises to see how this first chapter shows such an emotional side to him. As far as i remember PTSD was never really addressed publicly by people and not in the movies in any realistic way until this came along , for anyone who doubts Stallones acting ability this film and the ending monologue especially is definite proof he can be a great actor , i still tear up when i watch it . 😢 the other later entries end up being over the top and even caricatured , hell there was even a Saturday morning cartoon made about him . watch them if you feel so inclined . but this is a good one i'm glad i caught it Great reaction from Hannah and TOY BE SAFE and CHEERS ..

[@josephD32]

Yeah, people know of Rambo as that kick ass soldier, which is marketable. But what makes him that kick ass soldier isn't how much he actually kicks ass. When you watch the movies, you see how much he gets his ass kicked. By the end of Last Blood, Rambo has endured ungodly amounts of physical and psychological trauma over the course of his life. Rambo may be marketable as a symbol, but you definitely wouldn't want to actually be him, lol.

[@MrTech226]

Hannah & Toy Back in the 70's after Vietnam War, some of the Vets were treating badly by their country as they are coming home. I read that Vets stated Stallone did pretty good job representing them as they were treated badly. Some people called Vets "child killers" and spit on them. Most of Nam Vets were drafted for the war.

[@allenruss2976]

More specifically the anti war protesters and "peacenicks" called returning soldiers baby killers

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I met a guy a couple of weeks ago. We got around to talking about government jobs and Veteran's Preference. He said for years after he got back from Vietnam he was ashamed to tell anyone he was a veteran.

[@MrTech226]

Ladies Every day, surviving Vets of Nam facing this Delima every day... Most of them keep their experiences to themselves because experiences are in their minds. Rambo stated his friend and fellow comrade's body exploded all over him. One of many for those out there. I am a Boomer (later in the generation) seen it live every day. We, the people need to help them plus current generations who served for us.

[@zmarko]

As far as i can remember "PTSD" wasnt a thing back then, it was referred to as "shell shock." Also, Vietnam Vets were treated horribly upon returning from the war. A very good fsmily friend (much like a 2nd father to me) was a Vietnam Vet, and he took me to see Rambo II with him when i was 15, and the film was very difficult for him and he became quite emotional in the car on the way home.

[@johnnyringo80]

To be more precise, in the early 80s PTSD became slowly recognized as a serious medical condition. Before that, traumatized vets were often seen as unmanly cowards (or worse, just faking it to get a leave). Only after WW2 it was generally recognized that war isn't a heroic deed, so only from then on the idea could take hold that it actually makes you mentally ill. And for sure, the military would not acknowledge this fact for quite some time, so it took another horrible war (Vietnam) to convince them that this was really a problem.

[@davidcosta2244]

After the Vietnam War it was referred to as PTSD, and during, and after WW2, it was battle fatigue. During WW1, it was shell shocked.

[@iainbeech5879]

The traps that Rambo (Stallone) sets were actual ones used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army and killed lots of American soldiers. The trap were one of the deputies has the spikes go into his legs was a real one which was set a chest height and you can guess what that would do. First Blood is also David Morrell's favourite Rambo movie with The Last Blood from 2019 being his least and the one which David criticised the most.

[@tkurz3071]

My father served in Vietnam, wouldnt talk to me about any of it, when he took me to the theater to watch this movie during Rambo's monologue he just kept his head down with silent tears. After the movie I asked him if that was how it truly felt. He nodded. I gave him a rare hug and told him I appreciated him. The subsequent movies, became action porn due to the fact that in the book Rambo dies. Also Stallone fractured one of his ribs jumping into the tree off the cliff.

[@christopherferrarelli2262]

Ironically, the director of First Blood; Ted Kotcheff, would later direct another iconic film of the 1980’s that is so different from First Blood in many ways…he directed Weekend at Bernie’s (1989). Also, two members of the supporting cast who played Teasle’s deputies would have quite the television career. Michael Talbot, who played Balford, would become best known to TV audiences as Stan Switek; starring opposite Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, and Edward James Olmos for five seasons on Miami Vice (1984-1989). And David Caruso, who played Mitch, after appearing in An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) went to television where he first played John Kelly for one season of NYPD Blue (1993-2005), and later as Horatio Caine for ten seasons on C.S.I: Miami (2002-2012).

[@JohnWelsh-oz3jz]

When I was 10 years old; my dad took me to see this movie in the theater when it first came out. He thought it was important because he was a psychologist who began his career treating PTSD in soldiers returning from Viet Nam.

[@babygeneral1985]

Hannah & Toy Strikes Again lol. Another Stallone Film i believe ya'll will like is; "Over The Top"(1987)

[@MartinBeerbom]

The helicopter pilot who has the discussion with the sniper is Charles Tamburro. He's also the helicopter pilot in Terminator 2 who escapes from the T-1000 ("Get out!"), and performed the flying under the bridge.

[@TheCoreyd1086]

The movie was based on a book. In the book Rambo kills all the local police. Killing police in a movie wasn't a good idea so he just injured them. In the original cut Rambo asked Trautman to pull out his service weapon and kill him. Audiences booed so loud and the reaction to we rooted for Rambo the whole movie and he dies. Thankfully they changed it. This movie brought to light the poor treatment our vets returning from Vietnam endured. PTSD wasn't really known yet or even had a medical diagnosis yet. Yes let's go react to the rest of the Rambo movies

[@BKP526]

This is why Sylvester is the goat especially in action films. I recommend y'all watch Tulsa King

[@MrGameGuideChannel]

Rambo's knife is something else, crazy. 12:20 compass 16:46 first-aid

[@mikedeyulio736]

I own a replica from Part 2. Amazing knife

[@NelsonWin]

I had a calico named Boo as well, but sadly, she passed away a few months ago. Great reaction today, too.

[@RuntotheMovies]

So sorry for your loss. Here's to some wonderful memories with Boo.

[@NelsonWin]

@@RuntotheMovies thank you. You are so kind.

[@xbox0615]

One of my dad's favorite movie he really likes Rambo's trilogy every single ones

[@TheMajorActual]

Back in the 80's, "PTSD" wasn't a well-known term, if it even existed; we still called it "shell shock", and there weren't a lot of treatments for it....But this movie helped to make people realize that a lot of what they had believed for a decade was wrong, and that they needed to change -- even if the military wouldn't. Also, the sheriff's character wasn't exactly common in the US at that time....but you wouldn't have been surprised to run into him, either.

[@markjones127]

I'm mountain runner and had to give myself stitches after a bad fall once, luckily these days we have stick on sutures though, not sure I could actually stitch myself up! I did try an old US army trick once called a hot shot, you basically pierce a blister, squeeze the fluid out, then inject Tincture of Benzoin into it, it's insanely painful so only ever did it once! 🤣

[@RuntotheMovies]

Producer's note: remind me to never try mountain running. Trail and road are good enough for me.

[@terrysperman304]

People have been getting PTSD for hundreds of years, only the name has changed through time. Other PTSD terms also include, shell shocked, battle fatigue, and more. In WW1 soldiers were being "diagnosed" with shell shock. So they knew about it back then.

[@adambrown3918]

You can add "Operational Exhaustion". Not sure if that silly term was applied to Korean War vets. George Carlin has a good breakdown of this called Euphemisms from the comedy show Doin' It Again - 1990. It's very impactful!

[@c1ph3rpunk]

I suspect if I was able to time travel to Ancient Rome and have drinks with a Centurion they’d have words that sound like PTSD. Trauma is as old as humans.

[@shanwyn]

Well, they 'knew' about it without knowing. All they realized in the higher ranks was that a certain percentage of their soldiers stopped working as intended. Really knowing about it, the cause and effects and developing of treatment only started in the mid 20th century (and even the early treatment were more experimental than helpful). In the 70's and 80's only was when psychiatrists really started to get a deeper understanding. And it took another few decades until the public caught up with realizing. To the point now that we seemingly call every stress PTSD. Still a long road ahead of us apparently.

[@butkusfan23]

@@shanwyn it’s not that we call all “stress” ptsd, but we do say that any real “trauma” can cause ptsd. In other words, it’s definitely not from simple stress, but it also doesn’t have to come from combat service. Getting robbed at gun point, abused by a partner or parent, getting sexually assaulted or molested, lots of things can cause trauma to the nervous system that lasts. The nervous system doesn’t know the difference-trauma is trauma.

[@shanwyn]

@@butkusfan23 you're right, and that wasn't what I wanted to dismiss of course. But I heard people say "this is gonna give me PTSD" just in passing at the slightest issues as if it was no big deal. And it is kinda worrying to me that people do still not realize how serious it is. But then we live in a time we call everything in extremes. Everyone's a fascists immediately or the literally Hitler.. or PTSD. But then, maybe I simply overthink such things

[@juanfigueroa-serville2465]

Did anyone notice that when Will sat to relax in his office, behind him, he had on display 3 military medals: Navy Cross Silver Star Purple Heart Will is a World War 2 veteran and a badass war hero in his own right according to those 3 medals. It’s really interesting how they have a WW2 war hero as the antagonist with a chip on his shoulder against Vietnam Veterans. One would think that a war veteran would have the most compassion for a fellow brother war veteran.

[@RobertAWolf]

It's a powerful movie about how America treats our Vets, and still do. Realize the hell they go through for our country.

[@brandonwilliams957]

My uncle served in Vietnam. He would never talk about it. He was in the 25th infantry division. The same that was depicted in the movie "Platoon". Watching that might give you some context to what the soldiers and civilians went through there.

[@RogerWolfe-bn6rp]

My dad was a Vietnam vet he went through PTSD the whole time I was growing up he was able to hide it pretty well lost him two years

[@RuntotheMovies]

Truly sorry for your loss.

[@RogerWolfe-bn6rp]

@@RuntotheMovies thanks love your reactions this was my favorite of the series the 3rd not that great still good but definitely check the rest out and by the way your both beautiful ❤️

[@TheMadLeprechaun]

In the novel, Rambo has long hair and a big beard and wasn't wearing anything that was from the military, so when the sheriff see Rambo he assumes that he's a hippie.

[@arconeagain]

It was simply called shell shock for a long time, near a century. At least in my country of Australia, the returned soldiers of the Great War or even the Boer War. My relative was a runner, similar as depicted in the film Gallipoli. They ran in pairs, and he witnessed his mate get blown up, basically from a direct hit. He only ever spoke of this to my father once. That's an incredible film that nobody reacts to, Gallipoli. It stars a young Mel Gibson in Australia, not long after Mad Max and 'Tim'.

[@jamesfrench7299]

They need to react to Breaker Morant.

[@arconeagain]

@@jamesfrench7299 absolutely. Spoiler alert! But heartbreak after heartbreak. I heard a story about the actors with the final scene, how they walk holding hands. They decided to do that on instinct. It apparently turns out that this was historically accurate, but they did not know this.

[@ulgn1964]

This movie was filmed in Canada British Colombia in a small town called Hope.

[@josephD32]

My Dad was a Vietnam vet. He had seen, and done... a lot. Purple Heart with Cluster. In case you (or whoever is reading this) aren't aware, a Purple Heart is 'awarded' for being wounded in action. Oak clusters denote additional 'awards'. I've experienced him having flashbacks when I was a kid. Not fun times for me, or for him. I honestly believe his last experience in the world was a flashback. Not going to go too much into it, but, yeah... he was pretty messed up by what had happened to him there.

[@kirkcasteel7070]

@RuntotheMovies One of the things that they definitely didn't play on in the movie but it was in the book was the fact that the sheriff was a Korean war veteran and had a deep resentment for those that had came back from Vietnam because they had more attention than the Korean war veterans and a lot of them had that resentment because of being forgotten.

[@whoarocket]

And we think of this as an 80's movie because it came out in 1982, but it was a story that's based in the late 70's, so just a few years after the end of the war. So the understanding of war trauma wasn't even as good as we think of in the 80's.

[@socalpaul487]

If you watch the movie "Patton" you will see that "Battle Fatigue" was often treated as cowardice. This movie did a lot to bring to light the needs of Veterans and the realities of PTSD.

[@michaelcoulter1725]

Fun fact the Green Berets are actually trained to patch themselves up like that and ignore pain

[@masamune2984]

Not un-true, even if a bit hyperbolic (source: brother-in-law was the head of his Green Beret unit.)

[@dongilleo9743]

Green Berets are extensively trained in survival skills, because as originally created, their purpose was to be inserted behind enemy lines, where they would isolated and forced to be self reliant. There, they would they would train and assist native resistance groups, such as if the Soviet Union invaded Western Europe. Each team member would be highly trained in one skill, including a medic, but all team members cross trained in each other specialties in case of an emergency or to fill in for someone missing. So the idea of Rambo stitching himself up is not too far fetched.

[@michaelcoulter1725]

@@dongilleo9743 you got a point there of course if I was a Green Beret I myself would be in expert in weapons that's one of the good things about being a Green Beret man you can Master every single weapon from an M9 Beretta to an RPG

[@quixote6942]

"LET'S GO!" In the Book this was Based off of, Teasle had some deep issues as well, which better explained why he was the way he was (like the issues the Korean War Vet's faced when THEY came bac). It's Really SAD that PTSD has become so played out in Society. Where once it was reserved for the Effects Suffered by Combat Vets, Today it's a term used by someone that suffered "Emotional Trauma" due to a Bad Breakup. THEY AREN'T THE SAME!

[@andrewpetik2034]

Those last 10 minutes of the film are the most gut-wrenching.... Mr. Stallone gives an excellent performance as he relates the story of the horrific death of his friend. Those notes played on the trumpet (?) at 43:29 are haunting....

[@MitchClement-il6iq]

Awe when the monulogue was over toy squeezing boo ❤ such a great kitty.

[@RuntotheMovies]

She's our star! 😺

[@guitarman8462]

In the book , he dies. He practically comits suicide by his knife. Also when he looked at the dead cop that fell out from the chopper , it was him looking at a dead soldier.

[@LaptopLarry330]

Although other films made after the Vietnam War dealt with the issue of Shell Shock to varying degrees, this was the first time American filmgoers were exposed to the subject in an “Action/Adventure” film that made a lot of money at the box office. I watched this film in a local movie theater during its original theatrical run in 1982. The TV ads for the film were vague, yet intriguing. When I watched the film, it was one of the most compelling movie experiences I’ve ever seen in a mainstream Hollywood film. The film kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time, and the big payoff, with Stallone’s dialogue with Richard Crenna at the end, made me wish that Sylvester Stallone had won the Academy Award for “Best Actor” that year. It was an incredibly moving performance.

[@rickardbergh5431]

Actually, they were in British Columbia, Canada, in a town called Hope. Teasle is a Korean War veteran, which is only mentioned in the 1972 novel of the same name by David Morrell.

[@Wolf-Gunz]

07:58 - HER VOICE ❤❤❤

[@ccjtv809]

Sly actually broke his ribs jumping from the mountain cliff to the trees

[@Chris_Marrero]

It was definitely recognized that Vietnam Vets a lot of times had mental issues after the war. I don't recall exactly but I feel like PTSD didn't become a term that was used by the public at large until around the early 90s, maybe the late 80s (this is based solely on my memory which it not the most reliable source of info). I do remember this movie did get a LOT of people talking about his flashbacks and such, as well as how veterans were treated in some situations. Such a powerful and great societal commentary. Also so happy Hannah found her celebrity crush finally.

[@daeldo1]

Even today, the VA doesn't have the funding and therefore time to properly care for emotional or TBI injuries. If it isn't a missing limb or internal damage etc. then it isn't emergent. Internal wellness groups and external foundations with donations do more than the VA can with their limited budget for emotionally wounded soldiers. Citizens care more for the soldiers then those that sent them places and put them through that and even that is not enough.

[@waterbeauty85]

It was the mid to late 80s. I was in therapy for PTSD related to the Vietnam War at that time, and I remember my therapist once vented to me, saying that PTSD results from extreme, even life threatening, trauma, but thanks to pop psychology and self help gurus, he had many patients who were claiming PTSD for every emotional or behavioral inconvenience they had.

[@arthurjamesforbes6883]

I am Scottish, never been in any of the armed forces (although I worked on building Royal Navy type 22 warships when this movie was released), and I watched this film at the cinema in the UK as a teenager. It was released over here on 16th December of 1982 following ‘The Falkland’s War’ between the UK and Argentina; which happened during the summer months of that year. It is a film that really NEEDS to be seen ON THE BIG SCREEN to do it justice. IMHO it is the best Rambo film and I think of it as a ‘war film’. Like ‘Rocky’, this is a film that launched a successful film franchise. Unlike ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, it HAS NOT (to my knowledge), had the character name added subsequently, to highlight that it is a movie that has the character of John Rambo as the main character. i.e. renamed ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark’. It, for me, highlighted what a ‘special forces’ soldier was SUPPOSEDLY capable of; and MIGHT have been the FIRST such Hollywood movie of its kind. John Rambo, in this film, is FORCED to construct his own weaponry or ‘liberate’ firearms or explosives from, what he saw, as ‘the enemy’. His capture of Teasle in the forest showed how close a soldier can get to a target without being seen, if he/she is properly camouflaged. It highlights how scary such a soldier can be. This movie has a BRILLIANT Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack, and the end title song, ‘It’s a long road’ sung by Dan Hill, is a personal favourite; with the instrumental version used to introduce the film and is perfect IMHO. The film STILL holds up today as it was well written and acted. It is possible that the fictional TV series by Stephen J Cannell, ‘The A-Team’, was created to highlight U.S. Special Forces.

[@DEATH111183]

What people do not know is that after Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf war, people knew very little and were discovering the mental health issues of returning soldiers. As far as I can tell is Vietnam veterans had it worse with shellshocks, paranoid issues with people being behind or beside them. Even to the extreme of needing to sleep inside of trash cans because it was like the safety of the fox holes they spent years sleeping in. Hell there was even soldiers referred to as "tunnel rats" who would crawl in VC tunnels with field knives (much like Rambo's) and a pistol, to kill VC enemies inside. When they got back home from the war, many of them would work maintenance jobs in tight confined spaces because they felt more comfortable with it. Hell one of the night janitors at my highschool would spend his down time on the job under the risers of the auditorium or in the vent shafts of the gym.

[@davidmorgan5927]

PTSD back in WW2 was called Battle Fatigue. it has always been around but sweep under the porch when when selling war bonds and especially when recruitment events occurred.

[@azrielbaz]

As many have said the term PTSD did not come about till much later in late 90s early 2000s. Another thing to remember is media bias and protests of the Vietnam war turned public opinion againts the vets returning home. The best a vet returning home could hope for was some family there to welcome them home, a lot got groups protesting them and spitting on them calling them every name in the book. Add to that with almost zero public support the VA (veteran affairs) had no budget or services really to care for and help them. I was in a JROTC high school and one of the military instructors that served in Vietnam said he was denied entry into 2 different colleges when he tried to get a degree because he was a vietnam vet. Places in the smaller town he was from would not higher vietnam vets because they where "evil". If you look back over the history of wars that the USA has fought in the veterans from the Vietnam war are some of the worst treated, and at the time of coming home hated of any of them.

[@benpowersguitar]

The Vietnam vets were treated terrible. Every Rambo movie deals with a real issue of the time and is definitely worth your time. The next film is where the iconic, heavy action Rambo was started. This is the only one with no real body count.

[@blakewalker84120]

7:50 "They understood what PTSD was then." Not really. This movie was filmed in 1982 but the book was written in 1972. PTSD became an official diagnosis in 1980, so when the book was written, there was no such thing as a PTSD diagnosis. Even in 1982 it was still a new thing that was not widely known. Now, soldiers knew that they and other soldiers had mental and especially emotional difficulties after the war. Before PTSD became widely known, soldiers we would now treat for PTSD were usually treated badly, as if they were cowards who were not tough enough to deal with it. The sheriff, Will Teasle, is also a war veteran. He served in the Korean war.

[@suproliver]

You should definitely watch all the Rambo films. -OG

[@williamjones6031]

1. The line to buy a Rambo knife for Christmas 1982 was unbelievable. 2. "Rambo: First Blood II" is even better. He actually kills people in that one. 3. Sly did most of his own stunts. He even broke a couple of ribs falling through the trees. 4. GOOF, The Govenor is the only person authorized to deploy the State National Guard 5. My favorite character Colonel Trotman.😎 6. This was filmed in BC Canada. 7. In "Tango and Cash" Stallone's character Tango say's "Rambo, is a pussy". 🤣

[@RuntotheMovies]

Thanks for all of these tidbits. We have a reaction to Tango and Cash on our Patreon. It was a lot of fun.

[@MS-ro9dm]

@@RuntotheMovies II is not remotely as good. The Rambo character changes too much. It is a fine movie on it's own mind you.

[@butkusfan23]

@@MS-ro9dmagreed. It’s like all those goofballs that swear Rocky 4 is the best one. Um, no. No it isn’t lol

[@goatkiller666]

In the 80s, and even during the 70s while the war was going on, Vietnamese war vets weren’t treated well. She’ll shock was known, but with a very “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” approach. They did eventually link Agent Orange exposure to a whole bunch of health problem much later. Cancer was the obvious one, but high blood pressure or diabetes 2 as well. But there was very much nothing like the “thank you for your service” feeling we have since 9/11. Vietnam war vets were mostly drafted, not volunteers like today. The American people were very much against our presence over there. And a LOT of the soldiers did some pretty heinous stuff to the locals. But also, different factions of locals did heinous stuff to each other. (Check out the movie Full Metal Jacket for some of what that was like. There’s a scene where the gunner in a helicopter is just shooting random people working in their fields, as they fly over. He doesn’t even think they’re human.) A lot of soldiers were taking heroin, to self-medicate through all the trauma. It’s actually one of the biggest “studies” in drug addiction ever done. Because most of the folks who were using heavily while there… just stopped, when they came home. Because they had support systems in place, like family or friends, etc. the small fraction that kept their addictions going were the ones with no safety nets. Most of them became homeless addicts. So in the beginning of this movie, when the cop is giving him such a hard time for wearing that coat with those patches, that’s why. He assumed he was going to be a vagrant, steal stuff, and bring drugs to the town. The sheriff was actually a Korean War vet, himself. He didn’t hate vets, because in his eyes a vet would come back home, put on civilian clothes, and rejoin society. My dad was a Vietnamese war vet. He says that at first, the ones doing the really awful stuff were actually Korean Special Forces. Because they seen the “evils” of communism in their own country, they were fine doing all the war crimes. But eventually, we ran out of them, so American soldiers had to get their hands dirty. So there were absolutely a lot of GIs who came home scarred and traumatized, and got no help. They were blamed for their inability to re-integrate, and then heaped with scorn. Very different from how our Iraq and Afghanistan vets are treated now. (Though, we don’t treat the current crop of vet WELL… we’re just less bad to them.)

[@karlsson7300]

I think the saddest thing about this is that even to this day veterans get often treated like they´re nothing......

[@lidlett9883]

PTSD was simply called battle fatigue and or flashbacks. It was barely understood at the time. This movie was trying to bring attention to it. During the fight in the jail Rambo is not in the Pacific Northwest. Mentally he thinks he is in Vietnam. The hollow handle of Rambo's knife is used to store small.needed items the caps bottom is a compass.

[@RyneMurray23]

They honestly didn't know that much about PTSD back then. They called it "battle fatigue" or "shell shock".

[@tomfrankiewicz4030]

My father served in WWII. He definitely suffered from PTSD. But it wasn't something people talked about back then.

[@PMJohnson667]

PTSD wasn’t really understood by the masses when this came out. It was not in the national vocabulary. That took more than this movie. An interesting fact. The book this movie is based on has Rambo killed by Troutman. Stallone refused to do that ending. He refused to essentially say that the only way to help or deal with the guys going through it was to kill them.

[@williambeckett6336]

PTSD used to be known by the much more accurate name "Shell shock". From WWI till around the first gulf war when they started to "soften" the phraseology until it became the sertile sounding "PTSD." Soldiers traumatized by the horrors of war and duty given a term that's very clinical and doesn't upset the civilians like the harsh sounding "shell shock" used to.

[@gluuuuue]

That soldiers and war vets experienced and endured forms of emotional, psychological, and mental impairment has been known going back to.. WW2, maybe even WW1, and referred to at the time as "shell shock". The film noir, The Blue Dahlia (1946), has 3 vets suffering various degrees of it. PTSD wasn't referred to as that by the wider public, until I wanna say starting in the mid-to-late '90s, even the 2000s honestly, when it was recognized as applying to other traumatic events beyond just war experiences by soldiers/vets (eg. childhood traumas, or SA), even though the term PTSD was coined and recognized as a mental disorder as early as the very late '70s or early '80s, I think. But PTSD, as suffered by Rambo here and seen in other war , kinda captured the public's imagination after the Korean and especially Vietnam wars, as the public kinda dealt with the aftermath of those conflicts on wider American culture. Like, many things about '80s action movies became extremely cliched (obviously), but the genre really got its start from very poignant beginnings, with films like this first First Blood, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket (before they combined with scifi action films, and grew into an increasingly 'roided out celebration of rugged individuality and American exceptionalism, I think as a kind of romanticized fantasy reaction to the losses of Vietnam, and fueled by the economy of the '80s).

[@kathrynkissane5144]

My father did not survive a 2nd tour in Vietnam. I was a toddler. I applied for his documents, and In between tours, instead of ptsd, they diagnosed him with 'Inadequate Personality Disorder'. 😶😶😶😶😶

[@Reefism]

Ladies I recommend you watch the entire Rambo film series! Also in the WWE during the late '90s/early 2000s there were first blood matches!

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[@RuntotheMovies]

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[@FulcanMal]

PTSD was actually developed as a diagnosis in large part due to the Vietnam War. So it wasn't well understood or fully developed then.

[@fidel2xl]

Good reaction, ladies. And yes, even though the 1980s was before my time, I know that PTSD was well known. But just an FYI, while the term PTSD is relatively new, the condition has been known and talked about for hundreds of years but under different names. It's not a new thing. Also, remember, this is a movie...but even today in real life 2020s, war vets with PTSD are still treated very poorly by people (citizens, the government, local police etc). Many of the homeless people we see on the streets, hooked on drugs such as heroin, crack, fentanyl etc, and are in and out of prison, and abused by the 'system', are homeless vets many of whom are suffering from PTSD. So, while many movie reactors may look at a movie like this (a movie which does a good job of highlighting PTSD) and those movie reactors seem to suggest that people in the 1980s in general were ignorant of the PTSD phenomena due to the mistreatment of John Rambo by the police in the movie, just remember that even in REAL LIFE today in 2024, many sufferers of PTSD (and even abuse victims who were victimized as children) are STILL abused by the system today. The moral of story: We are no more enlightened in 2024 than society was back in 1982. Just sayin'.

[@JohnWelsh-oz3jz]

Very wise. Excellent insight.

[@l.piloto7964]

The cops and weekend warriors are all trekking through snow, mud and forest without any of the training Green Berets have and Rambo is in a dry cave out or the wind, snow and, mud having fire roasted pork seasoned with mushrooms and pine needles. PTSD became an official diagnosis in 1980 only with VA, the public was mostly ignorant of the diagnosis till much latter (shell shock and other terms existed but without any treatment regulation) before the novel was written.