Brothers At War – A Movie
Funny how some things just keep popping up. For the last year and a half, I have stepped away from all that work I was doing to help civilian contractors coming home from Iraq wounded either in mind or body. It ws consuming all my spare time and my life. I was “taking on” their problems, their hurt, their feelings…I had to take a break. I have been doing good in getting on with my life and not living in the past. I thought I had finally come home.
Then last week I ran into Steelbreezzz at the Petro in Fargo, ND. I was walking into the store when I heard a voice call “Cindy?”. I looked over and there he was! What a great site it was to see someone that I had worked with “over there”. I gave him a big hug and we chatted for a bit. Then Tom and I had to leave to go get his truck and a load.
As fate would have it, the load sent us back west and we stopped at the Petro again to grab breakfast. I found Steelbreezzz sitting in the resturant and we joined him. We talked of old times, people we both worked with, roads we ran, and how things are when ya come home. It was a great visit, but brough back so many memories, some good, some bad.
A few days ago I signed up for Twitter. Freewheelin’ is now on Twitter and I have been getting request from people wanting to follow me on it for a couple of years now, so I gave in. While browsing through my followers and their followers, I came across “Brothers at War“. As I looked deeper into this I found their web site and YouTube page.
BROTHERS AT WAR is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake’s exploits as he risks everything—including his life—to tell his brothers’ story. Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, BROTHERS AT WAR is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to U.S. and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper “Hide Sites” in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army. Ultimately, the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents, siblings, wives and children. BROTHERS AT WAR provides a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the frontlines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind.
I am going to make it a missioin to see this movie….one way or another. From watching the clips it has already touched me, so now I have to see the rest. I know the feelings, I have seen and felt them myself…even though I ws not a soldier over there,…..I was just a contractor.
