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Summary of Film or Television Series
premise
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“The four Meechum kids and their mother
move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the
peaceful years before the Vietnam war. Bull Meechum, the self-described
"great Santini," is manic: a martinet at once enthusiastic and
abusive of his family. In Beaufort, South Carolina, Bull is assigned to whip
into shape a squadron of pilots, and Ben makes friends with Toomer, a
slow-talking Black youth. Racial and family tensions explode in violence, and
Ben must find a way to make peace with his father.” (www.IMDB.com)
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