The D.I. was one of the best movies I saw twenty-five years ago. But now it is such as anachronism that it cannot be taken seriously. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao are all dead. They are the worst murderers in history. They were not warriors. They were all cowards because their victims were mainly innocent civilians. They should and deserve to be put on the trash heap of history. Or better yet completely forgotten and ignored. I love the military. Every day I thank my father,his generation, and John F. Kennedy for saving this planet from utter destruction. But what we need in this world is more "touchy-feely" and less militarism, greed, power, and divisiveness to take us forward. A better movie than "The D.I." is "Full Metal Jacket", especially the first half of it, where a recruit "Gomer Pyle" is so brainwashed into militarism that he shoots his own D.I. and then himself just to prove that he is a "good soldier". We can be our own worst enemy. And we are.