Top 10 Hollywood Heroes

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, TopTenREVIEWS.com offers their list of Top 10 Hollywood War Heroes. From the fearless leaders to those who risked - and sacrificed - their lives to achieve the ultimate goal, this list is our favorite heroes.

10. Ben Affleck as Rafe in Pearl Harbor, (2001)
The War: WWII
Memorable Quote: Yes, sir. It's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send 'em to your relatives.

9. Cary Grant as Captain Cassidy in Destination Tokyo (1943)
The War: WWII
Memorable Quote: Reserve Officer Raymond: You're scared?
Capt. Cassidy: I'll say I am. And so is everybody else.

8. Steve McQueen as Hilts in The Great Escape (1963)
The War: WWII
Memorable Quote: Von Luger: What were you doing by the wire?
Hilts: Well, like I told Max... I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I want to get out.

7. Mel Gibson as in We Were Soldiers (2002)
The War: Vietnam
Memorable Quote: Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I'll never forgive myself.
Joseph Galloway: For what, sir?
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: That my men... that my men died and I didn't.

6. Denzel Washington as Trip in Glory (1989)
The War: American Civil War
Memorable Quote: Trip: See the way I figure, I figure this war would be over a whole lot sooner if you boys just turned right on around and headed back on down that way, and you let us head on up there where the real fighting is.
10th Connecticut soldier: We got men dyin' up that road.
Trip: And there wouldn't be nothing but rebs dyin if they'd let the fifty-fourth in it.

5. Charlton Heston as Captain Garth in Midway (1976)
The War: WWII
Memorable Quote: You're being paid to fly fighter planes, not sit in your bunk and cry over your girl's picture! You better shape up, Tiger, or some hotshot Jap pilot's gonna flame your ass!

4. Bruce Willis as Lieutenant A.K. Waters in Tears of the Sun (2003)
The conflict: Navy SEAL rescue in Nigeria
Memorable Quote: Hey, he died for you, so you have to live, got it?!

3. Clint Eastwood as Sergeant Thomas "Gunny" Highway in Hearbreak Ridge (1986)
The Conflict: Grenada
Memorable Quote: Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act. So let's do it right, enjoy the view. Come on.

2. John Wayne as Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort in The Longest Day (1962).
The War: WWII, the events of D-Day.
Memorable Quote: You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.

1. George C. Scott as General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton (1970).
The War: WWII
Memorable Quote: Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that "we are holding our position." We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy.

Use the long weekend to download these movies from Netflix or head to the video store for a movie and popcorn. Then you can have a movie marathon on Memorial Day after the barbecue and the visits to the cemetery, because this is the best day and way to remember all our war heroes have done.

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