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Always Faithful – U.S. Marine Corps K9
While serving as a Security Forces member in the Air Force, I was given plenty of opportunities to serve alongside our K9 teams. Being able to talk to the handlers, help out with training, and even help to care for the dogs while on duty was something I always appreciated. In the independent film Always Faithful [...]
Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields
Growing up in a two family home had its benefits, especially when the other family was your Italian grandparents. Having my grandparents live in the same house was such a great experience I will never forget. By helping my grandmother in the kitchen I found a love for cooking, and by helping my grandfather [...]
Flat Daddy
In the film “Flat Daddy” by Nara Garber and Betsy Nagler, you will enter the lives of the Bugbee, Stephens, Winter and Ramirez Vance families. “Flat Daddy” is much more than a film about life like cut outs of a military childs’ deployed parent used to comfort them during a deployment. You will [...]
Flat Daddy
Only one percent of Americans serve in the U.S. Military, and their families have borne the disproportionate burden of more than a decade at war. Many have turned to ‘Flat Daddies‘ and ‘Heroes on a Stick,’ life-sized cardboard cutouts of their husbands, wives, parents and children serving overseas, to ease the pain of repeated deployments. [...]
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The Welcome
Her name is Laura, a veteran of the Afghan war and soon to be a veteran of the Iraq war. Laura is on stage sharing her story of war to an audience, the very war that haunts her on a daily basis. Laura is just one of the 24 veterans that we hear from in [...]
Hell and Back Again
It was summer of 2009 and Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Regiment was given new orders, to go deep into enemy lines to assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. We learn about this in the beginning of the film “Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis, and we also learn that this will [...]
Where Soldiers Come From
A question every veteran including myself has been asked at some point in their lives is, “What made you join the military”? In the case of Dom, Cole and their close friends who follow them into the military, it’s for similar reasons that my friends and I joined as well. In the Independent Film “Where [...]
In The Telling
It was October 2009 when I first learned about The Telling Project, an organization that found a different approach to connecting to the civilian population. The Telling Project gives Veterans a chance to take the stage and tell their stories of serving in and out of uniform. This past year The Telling Project decided to [...]
No Wine Left Behind
“No Wine Left Behind” is a short film by Kevin Gordon about the difficulties veterans face when they transition from military to civilian life. It is a film that should have no problems gaining attention throughout our country since the president has called an end to the Iraq war come 2012. Around 50,000 U.S. troops [...]
Striking a Chord
So there I was lying in bed listening to some music on my Aiwa stereo, letting the music sooth my teenage mind as I tried to fight the thoughts of what was to come the very next day. It was a day I will never forget; because it was the day my military career began. [...]
