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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-23-05 09:01 PM
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Purple Hearts-Injured Soldiers Tell Their Stories
Injured Soldiers Tell Their stories.

A story that President Bush would probably prefer not to see propagated.

In detail, they recount what happened on the day they got injured; how they arrived back home, blind or legless; how they have to try to forget the war now, in small towns around Alabama and Pittsburgh, or in Washington and L.A. Officially recognised as “heroes,” a Purple Heart on the uniform in the closet, most of these soldiers long to go back to an army that has no use for them anymore. Click here to watch it now.

Purple Hearts

Roel van Broekhoven

A photo series that the New York-based Nina Berman made of wounded Iraq veterans led to the making of this documentary. She also wrote the book 'Purple Hearts, Back from Iraq', in which soldiers tell their stories. Documentary filmmaker Roel van Broekhoven crossed the United States to visit the people portrayed in Berman's photos. 

In detail, they recount what happened on the day they got injured; how they arrived back home, blind or legless; how they have to try to forget the war now, in small towns around Alabama and Pittsburgh, or in Washington and L.A. Officially recognised as “heroes,” a Purple Heart on the uniform in the closet, most of these soldiers long to go back to an army that has no use for them anymore. A story that President Bush would probably prefer not to see propagated.


The first one minute, fifty seconds are in Dutch, the remainder is in English.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7799.htm
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