ALMOST HOME: One Man’s View of American Sniper

By Bob Owens

I finally saw American Sniper last night.

I now know why Michael Moore hates it.

American Sniper wasn’t a war movie. It was a movie about what war does to a man, and that’s much harder for a porcine blowhard to easily dismiss.

The Chris Kyle portrayed by Bradley Cooper in American Sniper was a ranch hand and rodeo cowboy stumbling through life. He became a reluctant savior as a Navy SEAL sniper in four tours of duty in Iraq. As the movie developed and Kyle went to war, you saw him buried under self-imposed responsibility, fighting to retain his humanity. The man …read more

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