B efore it won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1986, Platoon made waves simply by doing something new: showing the Vietnam War from the perspective of someone who fought in it. Oliver Stone was an ...

'Vietnam: The War That Changed America'. Courtesy of Apple. It was a true turning point — for Browles and his men. "From that day on, I was one of the platoon," says Browles, who went on to be a ...