Did they ever explain why these patients were in Greenland? Were they experimenting on them? Were all the VA hospitals in the US filled? I think this would have been a better movie without the X-Files wannabee aspect, but I guess its based on a book and so has to follow that to a certain degree.
shareFrom what I got, they were the men under the colonel and I guess a mission went wrong. The letters to the families said they died in battle and their bodies were irretrievable, probably b/c there would have been questions otherwise. They were kept there until they died. Or maybe it was something completely different, but that is what I got out of it.
"That's something you'll never hear from me, Capt. Butler, as long as you live"
In the original screenplay all the soldiers were to be used as crippled dancers in a follies show.
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
I got the impression that it was a foregone conclusion that this base would be completely obliterated at the time of the last patient's demise; this, to me, explained the attitude of the Commander, who allows increasingly lax discipline.
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