The Ground Truth. Did anyone here go and see the documentary last night?

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MoveOn sponsered this event. Is there anyone here at DU that went to a screening, if you did how did you feel walking out?

Apparently no one here at DU took part in the MoveOn campaign to view The Ground Truth, to sign petitions afterwards, to volunteer to deliver petitions to congresspeople.

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1. Good heavens to gracious and that is being nice, no one here went, saw or viewed

The Ground Truth last night?

I'm in awe. DU, is there a heartbeat? Nobody, no one.....

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2. I guess it was a nobody DU event. MoveOn be damned, along with

our vets.\

I went because I am part of a team gearing up to counter-recruit, call it "informed enlistment", if you will.

I was in DC when this film was premiered in September of 2006. I have met many of the vets in this film.

Please view it. Please stand up. Support our troops in real ways.

Quite honestly, I don't know how, I just know we have to. Our responsibility is clear and it weighs very heavy on my soul.

A Vietnam Vet in this film says the Iraq Vets are our kids. He means it. They are our kids.

His name is Stan Goff. just google

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7. I didn't see the moveon viewing

But you shouldn't misinterpret that as not seeing it. I saw it at a local church when they showed it, I own a copy, we showed it for an afterschool event sponsored by the peace council at the school where I teach.

I know a lot of the vets in it also, some quite well.

I'm in a counter-recruitment group as well, though I've shifted my framing and call it truth-in-recruiting now.

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3. I went to one

which happened to be in an extremely Republican neighborhood (not mine). Overall it was good. The people were all significantly older than me, which was a little disappointing because I was hoping there'd be more of a cross-section. They were all well informed and nice. We watched the movie, people passed out flyers for their own personal events (like a local women for peace conference) and discussed a next step (contacting our useless congress critter) and ways to get the video shown to more people. They even discussed our group getting together again to see more Iraq-related movies.

The only negative was as we were leaving, people were cleaning up and throwing away TONS of perfectly good food. Rather than pack it up or even ask if anyone wanted it, they just tossed it like that was normal behavior... which maybe it is in those neighborhoods. I was a little too shy to ask for the food. Since it was stuff I wouldnt' have eaten, I would normally have taken it to the homeless downtown or given it to my dogs or at least to wild birds... but since it was like 22 outside I just went home.

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4. Never be shy. Please. Even if it was 22 outside, you were already

out there. Thanks for going. What effect did the doc have on you? Did you connect with the Vets speaking to you?

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5. Yes, we all agreed

it was very effective. I don't think most of us had realized that the soldiers are so messed up when they come back. Or that it doesn't necessarily show up for months.

And it was heartbreaking to watch them say they couldn't talk to anyone because then we would view them as monsters... but then I would think, "Well you did kill innocent people."

It's hard to say what any individual would do in those circumstances but of course I hope I wouldn't kill anyone.

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6. Thanks jilln, that is all I needed to hear. You were moved. Peace.

Share this with everyone you know, and they will share. It is the butterfly effect. Make it happen, you can.l