The Cineastes at The Times Take Over
"An obituary on Friday about Col. David H. Hackworth, a war hero and later a critic of the Vietnam War, misidentified two units he commanded and the helicopters used by American forces in Vietnam. The Wolfhound Raiders were a platoon he led in Korea, not a regiment. In Vietnam, he commanded a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division, not an air cavalry brigade; that battalion flew Huey helicopters, not Black Hawks.
In some copies the obituary also misidentified the character in the film "Apocalypse Now" said to have been based on Colonel Hackworth. He was Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall - not Col. Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando."
See, we weren't saying your dad was a megalomaniacal warlord who created his own cult on foreign soil; we meant to say that he just really liked surfing. AB
