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Top Gun: Maverick Therapy

Top Gun: Maverick Therapy

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Jun 27, 2022
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In Franklin J. Schaffner’s & Francis Ford Coppola’s 1970 film Patton, U.S. General George S. Patton, Jr. famously visits a field hospital & slaps a cowardly soldier, not because he is a coward but because he is “stinking up” a place of honor, remaining behind the front, & crying about it. If Patton had been a character in this year’s Top Gun: Maverick, …

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Ethan McGuire is a writer, an editor at 'New Verse Review,' and the author of "Songs for Christmas," "Before Apokalypto," and 'Apocalypse Dance.'
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