Pace on Earth

Breathe And Stop

I am nearing the end of my War Through Film course with only one more class, a term paper and an exam left to go. I decided to focus my term paper on the the differences in the reception and experience of returning soldiers from Iraq and Vietnam as depicted in Born on the Fourth of July and Stop-Loss. That being the case, I had to go see Stop-Loss and I did so last night.

The story is pretty simple; a soldier returning home from Iraq is set to re-enter society after a tough tour and is then told he is being forced back to Iraq by a policy called stop-loss. The soldier goes AWOL and considers his options as his colleagues struggle with their return. I won't tell you how it ends because I think it's worth seeing. I will say, though, that it is one of the few movies that it at once pro-Army and anti-war. More accurately, though, it isn't anti-war, just anti-policy.

In a related story, President Bush was given the honour of throwing out the first pitch at the opening game of the Washington Nationals new stadium. Despite throwing a (ceremonially-relative) strike he was roundly booed . I don't like to get into politics around here but methinks some of these policies are catching up to him.

Pace out.

Labels: Stop-Loss

posted by Vitamin S @ 10:21 p.m.