American Sniper | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Below are Taya Kyle's comments extolling her beloved to completely come home to her:

    Taya Renae Kyle, Sienna Miller: "If you think that this war isn't changing you you're wrong. You can only circle the flames so long."

    Taya Renae Kyle, Sienna Miller: "You're my husband, you're the father of my children. Even when you're here, you're not here. I see you, I feel you, but you're not here."


    "American Sniper", at its nucleic core, is a film about sacrifice - one's sacrifice of body and even spirit for the well-being, the safety of others is the most noble of gifts to humanity. The act is so American, so Christian, so profoundly who Chris Kyle was, as Jason Hall's script exposed him at his immutable center, as Clint Eastwood's direction expressed the essence of this timeless tale, and critically to the story, Bradley Cooper showed us all who Chris Kyle really was, and how important that brand of patriot truly is to sustain the freedom component that sustains our Republic. Chris Kyle knew without question that there are no second acts in a fire fight. I think what makes "American Sniper such a visceral triumph of expression is that this film communicates that our Republic is primed for a symbolic fire fight, and while heroes, like Chris Kyle, are unquestionably the first line of defense, the rest of us will know that war is Hell, and war is inevitable, and God bless those that make this sacfrifice for us.
Chris Kyle, Bradley Cooper, narrows his focus, takes his position to 'aim small, to miss small', to kill for the rest of us enjoying the freedom of pure expression here in the American Republic: Above.    Click on image to expand.
    Chris Kyle did not operate in the vacuum of anonymity, he was a soldier with a 6 figure bounty on his head due to his prowess with a sniper's rifle. Even to his fellow SEALS, his peers, he was known simply as the "The Legend". Marines operating in Ramadi and Fallujah felt somehow safer going door to door to clear the streets of insurgents/terrorists, with "The Legend" loose upon the rooftops taking out "the bad guys".

    Chris Kyle was known infamously to the insurgents/terrorists as the "Devil of Ramadi", but what really impressed the Texan was that posters for his bounty had, as a symbol for his dissolution, the Crusader's Cross. That Crusader's Cross symbolically suggested the role that Chris's father gave him as the 'sheepdog', the one brave soul, imbued by God, to protect the 'sheep' from the 'wolves', the predators.

    Chris Kyle may have been an effective soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq, enough to disgust most pacifist Liberals, but he began as a Texas Cowboy. As it is a truth that activist pacifist Liberals have a poor grasp of world history, there is an American history truth that Texas has produced more than it's share of heroes, from: Sam Houston, to World War II veteran Lt. Audie Murphy (the most decorated soldier in American History), to present day Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle, "The Legend". These are the true leaders who exemplify patriotism, that freedom is hard won, that devotion to duty is a sacrifice of supreme purpose, and would not continue today without these patriots' selfless efforts.

    Rated R. Released in theaters January 16, 2015. 132 tight minutes of run time.



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