When Mom was here taking care of K after her surgery, she ordered a bunch of Netflix movies. This one came after she left, but K watched it, and recommended that I watch it before shipping it back to Mom in NC.Whew, it's intense. It's a documentary of sorts -- a series of interviews with vets returning from the Iraq War with various types of battle scars. There are missing limbs, disfigured limbs, shrapnel wounds, blindness, and (of course) PTSD. Each interview provides background on how the injury occurred, the recovery process, life today, and thoughts about the war and the military. Every story is different; every soldier has a different outlook. But they are all an unabashed reminder of what the men and women in our military risk every day.
We would all do well to remember them and their sacrifices.
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