Now that I think of it, you may be right, Vorlon.
Random gripe about the movie: they changed the subplot involving the Swamp's mess boy, Ho Jon. In the movie, they try to get him out of his induction into the South Korean army by getting him amped up on pills, but it doesn't work and he's taken anyway. In the book, they decide to try to raise money to have him sent to the states to attend college. The scheme they come up with involves a very drunk Trapper (who is rail thin and has grown a beard, prompting the priest, Dago Red, to remark that he looks a bit like Jesus) being driven around from one post to another near the front in the back of a truck. At each stop, he is hoisted up before the amused GIs on a makeshift cross while a friendly chopper pilot appears to cast a bright light on The Savior. The show is a hit at each stop and brings in money from the bored soldiers, but they finally run afoul of a unit from Mississippi who object to the display. I suppose the sequence was deemed to be potentially too controversial for inclusion, but I would have loved to see it.
Random gripe about the movie: they changed the subplot involving the Swamp's mess boy, Ho Jon. In the movie, they try to get him out of his induction into the South Korean army by getting him amped up on pills, but it doesn't work and he's taken anyway. In the book, they decide to try to raise money to have him sent to the states to attend college. The scheme they come up with involves a very drunk Trapper (who is rail thin and has grown a beard, prompting the priest, Dago Red, to remark that he looks a bit like Jesus) being driven around from one post to another near the front in the back of a truck. At each stop, he is hoisted up before the amused GIs on a makeshift cross while a friendly chopper pilot appears to cast a bright light on The Savior. The show is a hit at each stop and brings in money from the bored soldiers, but they finally run afoul of a unit from Mississippi who object to the display. I suppose the sequence was deemed to be potentially too controversial for inclusion, but I would have loved to see it.
