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Jun 04, 2014
This was a very good movie about how African-Americans were not only given the chance to fight in WWII but to show the powers to be that they were equal and just as good as any white soldier. This movie had it all: grief, love, loyalty, brotherhood, compassion, duty and a sense of belonging. Two parts stood out for me: One, where the black staff sergeant realized that he felt more free being in Italy, and how the people treated them there, and two, when the little boy that they had rescued, had grown up and had bought the statue that one of the black soldiers had found, gave it back to the remaining black soldier who had survived, after being released from police custody for shooting the Italian underground fighter who betrayed not only his own comrades but the black soldiers as well.