<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#272523" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #272523"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></i></b> <b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"I was blessed that he was home and not in a body bag or coffin, but a part of him died over there… and I know he'll never be the same person."</span></font></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br> Nickie Huze, wife of Corporal Sean Huze, US Marine Corps </span></font></font></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">BLUE HILL --</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">On Memorial Day Weekend, Peninsula Peace & Justice will show the film THE GROUND TRUTH: AFTER THE KILLING ENDS. The film </span></font><span style="color: rgb(39, 37, 35); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">takes an unflinching look at the training and dehumanization of US soldiers, and how they struggle to come to terms with it when they come back home.
Scenes include a recruiting day at Venice Beach in California, a Marine boot camp in 2002, just months prior to the Iraq Invasion, combat in Iraq, and interviews with returning soldiers and their families.
According to director Patricia Foulkrod “I wanted us to sit with the broken hearts and troubled minds of these young veterans, so we can take responsibility for their suffering, that is being experienced in our name.”</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(39, 37, 35); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(39, 37, 35); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The film will be shown on Friday evening, May 28</span></font><sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, 7:00 p.m. at Blue Hill Library. Everyone is welcome. For more info 326-4405.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(39, 37, 35); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272523" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">from the web site:</span></font></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#272523" face="Verdana"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#272523" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #272523"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle, and overjoyed returning faces, reunited with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario that can include illness, amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most, The Ground Truth makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its characters simply as war statistics. <br><br> The film gives us glimpses into a Marine Corps boot camp that allows us to comprehend how a man or woman can kill as part of their job. We get hit with more understanding of our soldiers' dehumanization by seeing Iraq combat footage that shows routine indiscriminate killing. Their jobs over, the confusion, guilt and shame that comes home with these "killers" is the tip of the iceberg. Left with few resources and families that cannot understand what they have seen or done, their anguish only intensifies. Foulkrod's graphic footage and still-photographs of the ground conflict in Iraq, should forever shatter the sanitized images found on the nightly news and provide a much needed wake-up call for all of us.</span></font> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"You don't go to war with a country, without going to war with its people."</span></font></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>Charles Anderson, Petty Officer, US Navy</span></font><br></span></font></div></font></div>
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