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3. What a Strange Country | Do We Get to Win This Time?

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Coming Home: A Shambolic Production

"This was a terrible risk to take. I think in that moment it was not very politically correct to express any degree of patriotism in America," Derek Washburn says. "The characters in the movie got so exhausted they just kind of sank into it." The ending features Bruce Dern's character giving a passionate speech against the war, but he strips naked and walks into the ocean.

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