This movie was flawless until...

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Platoon is one of my favorite movies, I never had any issues with the speech at the end as I think he describes perfectly the culture of the U.S., not just the Vietnam conflict. I've lived in several other countries and some have completely different cultures and when I came back to the U.S. it's glaringly obvious that We ARE constantly fighting ourselves.

You're one of those gung ho war hawk republicans or something?

This was the most retarded summary of a film I’ve ever read

All of his voice-overs were ridiculous; laughably trying to sound all philosophical, insightful, profound, and deep.

And why was he writing letters to "grandma" anyway? Who over the age of 6 does that? It would have made a lot more sense if he'd been writing to a parent or girlfriend. The way he was writing was the way someone would write to someone they're particularly close to. In most cases, by the time a male is an adult, his grandmother is only seen during e.g., family gatherings such as on Thanksgiving.

If he'd been raised by his grandmother then that would be a different story, but since he gives his grandmother messages to pass on to his mother, that doesn't seem to be the case. And I can imagine his mother would be pissed; getting second-hand messages from her mother or mother-in-law instead of letters directly from her own son.