Liem whatley biography of martin

In a way, the veterans of the two sides in a war have more in common with each other than with the civilians back home. They share the same terrain and the same experience, and by risking their lives in the process of trying to kill each other, they form an indelible bond.

A few months ago I participated in the first cultural exchange between Vietnamese and American filmmakers, who screened and discussed their war movies at the Hawaii Film Festival.

And as the veterans of the war, from both sides, talked with each other, I sensed, not animosity, but an unspoken identification that came from shared knowledge: They had been there, and the rest of us had not.

“The Iron Triangle” comes out of a sensibility like that.

We see the action from two points of view – through the eyes of Keene, an American infantry captain (Beau Bridges), and Ho, a 17-year-old Viet Cong foot soldier (Liem Whatley). Ho has problems with Khoi (James Ishida), the selfish and ambitious party off