For a History Channel movie I thought it was pretty well done... Good enough to watch the re-runs...
I was pullin for the Hatfields..
x2...on the Hatfield's...I watched it all and it was an learning experience for sure...I was thinking about starting a thread on shell shock, toxic shock syndrome, and the latest... post traumatic stress syndrome...all three are the same...was planning on it for Memorial day weekend but changed my mind...
Of course can't believe everything on TV because sometimes it is exaggerated for the ratings...but I went back and googled it and it pretty much had the same script...if we can believe that too...
I used to think it was the Hatfield's that started the crap...but it seems the McCoys started it and the Hayfield's had to retaliate to defend themselves...escalated from there...
I believe that if Randall McCoy was taken out early on then all this may never have happened...Randall McCoy probably suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome which can make some people violent...but it depends on how bad there stress was during war...It progresses at different rates according to different type of personalities as well as how bad the stress was and for how long...It can reach to a point where there si no cure according to some psychiatric experts in that field...
Talking about honoring the fallen soldiers on memorial day...we should also include those with the Post Traumatic Stress disorder as well as soldiers who were wounded...but then it should include all that serve honorably...I knew of some from the Vietnam era that became somewhat violent, alcoholics, and some couldn't sleep but a few minutes at a time even 15 years later...but the ones I am talking about usually had a tough job..like machine gunners out of a helicopter etc.etc. or on the ground in the front lines...also have a lot of friends that had to deal with this disorder for a good while before they overcame it...and the divorce rate was pretty high with these soldiers...but you can be a civilian and suffer the same...even kids....
sorry about the ramblings...but I do believe that Post traumatic stress played a factor with the McCoys and Hatfield's...it just escalated from there...
