I watched this movie last night, while it was nothing like what I expected it is an excellent movie. I highly recommend that all American citizens watch this film, if for no other reason than to gain a small sense of what or veterans endure, both during war, and after war.

The movie revolves around the experiences of four former soldiers, in particular the trials they endure after their time in Iraq. The movie relays in a very powerful manner what happens to men and women who spend a year in the desert fighting an enemy that cannot be seen. It shows the viewer that war is something that forever alters a persons mind; nothing is ever the same again. As the film pointed out, veterans of Vietnam are still affected by what they did, what they saw, and what they lost.

This movie shows us that even though our soldiers do what they must to survive and return home to their families, something most of service members look forward to every day, that their return is marred by the war. It is still with them, it still haunts their dreams and waking hours. The movie displays the criminal neglect shown by our government to our veterans; excuses for the lack of care, mountains of paperwork and miles of red tape, the feeling of abandonment by their government. In short this movie portrays all the horrors of war, every, terrifying facet that is little known and often ignored by the majority of Americans.

This movie should be seen by all of us here in America, it should be shown in high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation. It forces the suffering of the few on the complacent majority. It thrusts itself upon the mind with heartbreaking and nerve wracking fury. This is a movie dealing with a subject that we as a people are afraid to look in the eye, and so we ignore it, we shove it to the side like so much garbage, and in doing so we forsake the men and women who have given the most, and in some cases, all.

People, you cannot abdicate yourself of your guilt by ignoring the problem. It will not go away. The men and women of our Armed Forces are people just like you. They are not to be discarded when their use to our government is spent. Our government views our military members as expendable assets, trust me on this, and they are treated as such. Their friends, families, and communities should not commit the same crime.