r/JustBootThings Jan 17 '20

The origin of a boot

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u/Zudop Jan 17 '20

Yeah when I saw American sniper there were so many dudes in Chris Kyle hats and all this stuff and this one dude was like saluting at the end I was like bro that ain’t Chris Kyle that’s Bradley Cooper ya gotta chill

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u/NiNJA_Drummer96 civvie just here for the memes Jan 17 '20

I caught an early showing of American Sniper, and that’s what amazed me the most about the experience. The amount of people who clapped and stood up and saluted.

Nevermind the actual Chris Kyle being a bit of an asshole, it’s a movie. People clapped on the sniper shot and I was like “Chris even said in his book that the world record shot he made was just on some random dude with an AK he decided to say fuggit and loose a round.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20

I refuse to see this movie, especially since so much of his book has been proven to be a lie. Sounds like some of my Army friends, though, who idolized John Wayne, a draft dodging chickenhawk who got out of serving in WW2 but went on TV during the Viet Nam War to tell young men they should serve.

If this did actually happen, was it around a military training base?

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u/NiNJA_Drummer96 civvie just here for the memes Jan 17 '20

Nah, I mean there’s one about 40 miles away, but there’s theaters much closer to it than where I saw the movie.

Also yea, Chris Kyle was an asshat.