Editing Black Hawk Down (film) (section)

===Mogadishu Mile===
It is often believed that the soldiers involved in the [[Mogadishu Mile]] had to run all the way to the [[Mogadiscio Stadium]], as shown in the film. However, in that scene the filmmakers took artistic license and dramatized the event, departing from the book. In the film, the Mogadishu Mile ends with about a dozen soldiers entering the Mogadiscio Stadium having run all the way through the city. In the book, it ends with soldiers reaching a rendezvous point on National Street (in the opposite direction from the stadium):

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"As he [75th Rangers SGT Randy Ramaglia]<ref>{{cite interview |subject-first=Sgt. Randy |subject-last=Ragmaglia |interviewer=<!--not stated or generic "Staff"--> |title=Ambush in Mogadishu |work=[[PBS Frontline]] |publisher=[[WGBH Educational Foundation]] |date= |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/rangers/ramaglia.html |access-date=2025-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Bowden |author-link=Mark Bowden |title=Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War |year=2001 |publisher=[[Signet Books]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-451-20393-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackhawkdownsto2001bowd |chapter=N.S.D.Q. |page=[https://archive.org/details/blackhawkdownsto2001bowd/page/348/mode/2up?q=Running 349] |url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive Book Reader]]}}</ref> approached the intersection of Hawlwadig Road and National Street, about five blocks south of the Olympic Hotel, he saw a tank and the line of APCs and Humvees and a mass of men in desert battle dress. He ran until he collapsed, with joy"<ref>{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Bowden |author-link=Mark Bowden |title=Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War |year=2001 |publisher=[[Signet Books]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-451-20393-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackhawkdownsto2001bowd |chapter=N.S.D.Q. |page=[https://archive.org/details/blackhawkdownsto2001bowd/page/350 350] |url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive Book Reader]]}}</ref>
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"These APCs were headed back about 800 meters to a strongpoint where reserve element has stayed behind with the tanks, and the plan was to move the wounded via the vehicles and the healthy by foot back to the strongpoint. That's exactly what happened. That, in all its non-dramatic form, is the so-called "Mogadishu mile"..."<ref>Col. Lee A. Van Arsdale. "Audio Commentary by Task Force Rangers". [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008YLV2 Black Hawk Down 3-Disk Deluxe Edition]</ref>
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