Credited cast:
Robert Acosta .... Himself
Patricia Foulkrod .... Host/Interviewer
Nickie Huze .... Herself
Sean Huze .... Himself
Denver Jones .... Himself
Joyce Lucey .... Herself
Kevin Lucey .... Himself
Jackie Massey .... Herself
Jimmy Massey .... Himself
Herold Noel .... Himself
Chad Reiber .... Himself
Paul Rieckhoff .... Himself
Steve Robinson .... Himself
Robert Scaer .... Himself
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Robert AcostaA Soldier Speaks: Robert J. Acosta
By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. Posted October 26, 2004.
One bad day in Iraq and a 19-year-old boy faces a lifetime without his right hand. This veteran speaks about his hopes and fears – and the long, hard road ahead.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20293/--
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Yeah I got a purple heart. I don't care. No soldier wants a purple heart. I'll tell you that much. No soldier wants it. Awards don't mean nothing to me. I don't need anything to prove I was there. I know I was there. I got a constant reminder.
I mean like all the reasons we went to war, it just seems like they're not legit enough for people to lose their lives for and for me to lose my hand and use of my leg and for my buddies to lose their limbs. Like I just had a big conversation with my buddy the other day and like we want to know. I feel like we deserve to know.<
http://www.optruth.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=119--------
Sean HuzeA Soldier Speaks: Sean Huze
By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. Posted November 1, 2004.
This Marine was a true believer in the reasons for the Iraq war. He talks to AlterNet about his loss of moral certainty, the gift of wisdom and "regime change" at home.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20358/--
Theater of War
An Ex-Marine Brings Iraq Stateside at MetroStage
By Richard Leiby
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 8, 2005; Page C01
It's been a very bad week for the Marines in Iraq, and playwright Sean Huze is taking it personally.
"Twenty-one Marines killed in the past 48 hours," he says, his voice rising in anger.
"I wonder when we've had enough -- when we as a society will hold this administration accountable for getting us into a war unnecessarily."Huze, 30, lean and tattooed, sips from a can of Red Bull and drags on his cigarette outside MetroStage, the small theater in Alexandria where he is overseeing rehearsals for his first play, "The Sand Storm: Stories From the Front." You might be tempted to dismiss him as another antiwar Hollywood liberal -- he is, after all, an actor and playwright from Los Angeles -- except there's this: Until a few months ago, he was Marine Cpl. Huze, a veteran of combat in Iraq. He also was one of those gung-ho young patriots who marched into recruiting offices on Sept. 12, 2001, itching for payback.
Nicknamed "Hollywood" by his fellow Marines, Huze joined the invasion force that toppled Saddam Hussein. More than two years later, buddies in his old unit, the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, are still in Iraq, attempting to disrupt insurgent supply lines in the western Anbar province. When his eyes redden and mist with tears, you get it: This war is still inside him.<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080700883.html?referrer=emailarticle--------
Denver JonesA Soldier Speaks: Denver Jones
By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. Posted October 27, 2004.
The 35-year-old Army reservist suffered a spine-shattering injury that left him permanently disabled. But he reserves his compassion for those who need it most: Iraqi children.
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/20314/--
>Denver Jones lives in rural Caldwell County, North Carolina. He spent eight years in the active duty Army and four years in the Army Reserves. A veteran of the Panama invasion and the first Gulf War, Jones re-enlisted after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq as a Specialist. Working as a UPS mechanic in his civilian life, Jones was assigned to a transportation unit. Jones was involved in a PLS accident that ruptured three disks and fractured two of the vertebrae in his spine. He also suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Although Jones is now disabled for life, he is not included in the Pentagon's casualty count because his injuries were not sustained during direct contact with the enemy.<
http://iava.democracyinaction.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=119--------
Kevin and Joyce LuceyThe Things He Carried:
Atrocities, Investigations and the Suicide of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey
On The Ground
Posted by Newt on August 20, 2004 - 10:32am
If you ask Marine Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey’s mother what happened, she will tell you that her son died in Iraq. He wasn’t physically dead yet, but when Jeffrey came back from the war a year ago, he just wasn’t the same; some fundamental part of him got left behind. Noisy demons followed him everywhere.
There was no respite from the accusatory chatter in his head, the creeping sense of impending doom, the hopelessness that invaded every hour in a relentless march of endless days. Sometimes he would drink himself into unconsciousness, but even sleep was no safe haven.
On June 22 at about 6:45 in the evening, Jeffrey Lucey’s father discovered him hanging in the basement cellar, his neck encircled by a noose fashioned from a garden hose. Jeffrey left three suicide notes, one of them, a practice version his father thinks, was found tucked behind the television set.<
http://www.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/370--------
My apologies. I was going to go down through the entire 'cast' and provide a bit of information on each person, but after reading the article by Kevin and Joyce Lucey about their son, I can't go on.
Sadness and anger overwhelms.
I hope this documentary gets the attention and credit it deserves.
kicked and recommended. thank you, deadparrot.
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