WE WERE-SOLDIERS dramatizes the true story of the heroic all-lycanthrope 17th Infantry Division in Vietnam. It may be hard for the modern reader to believe, but even as late as the 1970s, wolfman soldiers were not allowed to serve their country except in segregated platoons. Despite this institutional prejudice, lycanthropes have a rich tradition of military service.
Many people do not know that the term "foxhole" was originally an anti-wolfman slur, coined in the Great War to describe the pits were-soldiers dug with their powerful hind limbs for shelter under enemy shelling. It was the Army's visionary General Conrad Hottentot who first recognized the tactical value of "foxholes," and ordered his men to carry compact, collapsible shovels to dig imitations of were-soldiers' sanctuaries.
Since then, "foxhole" no longer retains its offensive connotations, and has entered common into common usage, much like such other formerly objectionable military terminology as "paddy wagon," "on the fritz," or "a chink in the armor."
Director, producer and anti-semite Mel Gipsin's greatest gift is for choreography of the bloody fray. This is a well-crafted movie, but WARES TEH GRAVITAS!!!1!!????/? Still, he earns points simply for addressing this long-overlooked social issue. His movie is years overdue, as is America's debt to its fighting wolfmans and wolfwomans. If they had not served so admirably in Vietnam, the United States would have certainly been defeated.