Iraq War Veterans form Operation Truth group. You must see this!

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.optruth.org

Robert Acosta (Purple Hearts) is featured in the new TV ad, but Operation Truth needs donations to get it on the air. Here's his story:

Spc. Robert Acosta, 20, from Santa Ana, California, an ammunitions specialist with the 1st Armored Divison, was in a humvee near Baghdad International Airport July 13, 2003, when a grenade was thrown into his vehicle. In the explosion he lost his right hand and the use of his left leg. This story can also be found in Purple Hearts, a book by Nina Berman, and is available on this website.



(C) Nina Berman - Purple Hearts - Trolley

At Walter Reed, it tripped me out because there were a lot of guys there messed up. I guess you hear about guys getting hit and this and that but you don't realize until you actually see them. It's a trip when you're one of those guys too. I'm 20 years old and these guys are like between 18 and 23. It's weird.

I mean we would go to the mall and it would be like me missing my hand, my buddy Ed missing a leg. My buddy Chris missing his whole arm. We're all in crutches or wheelchairs, whatever, and they're just like five or six of us going through the mall, soldiers just back from the war, mad at the world just talking shit to everybody.

But like here in California, nobody really knows what the soldiers are going through, what's happening to them. They see on TV, oh yeah, two soldiers got wounded today and they think, yeah, he'll be alright. But that soldier is scarred for life both physically and mentally, but like they don't understand. They see one soldier wounded and they'll forget about it like as soon as they change the channel, you know.

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.

You can hear Robert Acosta speak in a clip from the new documentary, The Ground Truth.

You can watch the tv ad on this link: http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=mediaCampaign&lnav=2

It is a must see, and I will be sending them some money to get this on the air asap.

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