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Sending Brother to save Brother??
posted by volkstraumSTAFFMOD on February 16, 2020 at 12:15 PM
Granted this is the UK and it’s also decades before the Sullivan brothers tragedy, but it seems odd they would put a sibling from another unit in extreme danger in order to save the brother’s battle group. Is there a historical precedent for this?
Reply by znexyish
on February 16, 2020 at 2:32 PM
Perhaps an unintentional precedent. It's just a cheap emotional stunt and sets up another one in the middle and both relate to the one at the end.
Reply by MongoLloyd
on February 16, 2020 at 11:14 PM
Probably made the most sense to send a soldier who had an emotional motivation to succeed seeing as how it was such a sh!t show. Any other soldier might have holed up somewhere and claimed he came under fire and couldn't reach his goal.
Here's a little trivia about the Sullivan brothers: the WW2 film, "Proud" was partially filmed on the SS Sullivan which is sitting in the naval park in Buffalo, NY.
Reply by OddRob
on February 17, 2020 at 11:25 PM
Emotional motivation. They knew the younger brother would do anything to try and save the older.