Talk:In the Valley of Elah

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This film is based upon the story of Richard Davis. I don't know particularly what section that information should go under, but his story is documented at [1] --Jbachtel 16:26, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expanded Summary

Hello,

Hope this plot summary is helpful, it is one of my first here on Wiki. I just watched the movie tonight and went back through to chronicle the synopsis. Please let me know if there's anything I can change, also, I didnt know how to add the spoiler tags, if someone could do that, much appreciated.

142.51.222.187 (talk) 09:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I have found some problems in your plot summary (Ie. Identifying the main character as a retired officer and saying he flew the flag from his son's coffin) but I am cleaning it up.

68.48.164.97 (talk) 13:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I repaired the following inaccuracies in the plot summary:

1. Main character is a retired Sgt, not an officer. Also the murdered son and his squad should not be referred to as fellow officers as the were all enlisted. I was in the army, you can trust me that enlisted men take great offense at being called officers. 2. Main character did not find blood at the crime scene. He told them where they would have found blood judging by the drag marks on the ground. It was a guess based on where the body would have been during the murder. No blood was actually found. 3. He does not fly the flag from his sons coffin. There is a scene right before this where he receives a flag in the mail that his son sent him as a gift. It is this faded flag his son mailed from Iraq that he flies upside down at the end.

68.48.164.97 (talk) 13:39, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that; I wrote that at like 4AM in the morning. I missed the part about the flag coming in the mail I thought that was the folded flag off of his son's coffin.

THanks for clarifying

142.51.222.187 (talk) 18:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)