The Last Full Measure

[SoulBiter]

Incredible film. The last film that Peter Fonda was in before he died. An A-list cast and story make this a film you will remember.

The true story of William H. Pitsenbarger, an Air Force rescue medic whose heroism and valor saved some 60 regular soldiers in one of the bloodiest battles of what many consider the most stupid, indefensible and unnecessary war in U.S. history. Instead of escaping heavy enemy fire in the last helicopter, he remained behind in the combat zone to help the stranded, outnumbered 1st Infantry Division survive, paying the ultimate price with his own life.

For the next 32 years, proposals were repeatedly made by one of his comrades, to honor him posthumously with the distinguished Congressional Medal of Honor, rather than the silver star he was given. The movie reveals the shocking, shameful details of what he discovered: an injustice buried for three decades by a handful of corrupt and incompetent congressmen too embarrassed and guilt-ridden to draw public attention to their mistakes in costing the lives of so many innocent men who died following incompetent orders from a chain of command that should have been banished from the military forever.