On a similar thread, the library has a new documentary entitled, "My
Country, My Country" which was filmed in 2005, and documents several
weeks in the life of an Iraqi doctor and his family.
The film offers a small glimpse (albeit from the eyes of an American
filmmaker) of life inside Iraq since the U.S. occupation.
The DVD located on the 1st floor of the library at call # DS79.76.M9.
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Priscilla Seaman
Reference/Instruction Librarian
Lupton Library, UTC
(423) 425-2669
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"And his father would have nodded, knowing full well that many brave men
do not win medals for their bravery, and that many others win medals for
nothing."
--from "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Adam Trowbridge
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] FW: Red Shirt
Creating an apparently fictional story:
http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/myth-blaster-em
ail-
story-a-simple-thank-you/
to co-opt what was a Canadian movement
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/redfriday.asp
still seems odd to me. The red makes sense once you find out it was
Canadian
to begin with.
Anyway, as Snopes points out, there are much more direct ways to
"support
the troops":
http://www.anysoldier.com/index.cfm
http://booksforsoldiers.com/
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/tooursoldiers/
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Jim
Bowman
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] FW: Red Shirt
The few on this campus who have zipped a body bag to seal the body of
a friend, have very specific feelings about these things.
Those memories have nothing to do with politics or a movements
manipulations of public opinion.
You cannot kill an idea and you cannot kill the memory of men who
gave their life on our behalf.
Politics will never erase the dreams at night of eyes wide being
hidden in black rubber.
A sandy haired friend will visit you forever if the last thing you
remember is zipping over his blood soaked hair and open eyes.
To honor their memory is not honoring the war or the men whose
missteps started it.
Jim
At 01:04 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
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Of
>Adam Trowbridge
>Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:00 PM
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>Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] FW: Red Shirt
>
>I would hesitate to sign up with people who use the phrase "silent
>majority"
>to describe themselves.
>
>Just an observation: Imagine what the response by "the silent majority"
>to this would have been just a few short years ago. I can only imagine
>the "better dead than red" and "love it or leave it" responses (and
that
>would have been the more tame ones!)
>
> >>If every one of us who loves this country will share this with
> >>acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long
> >>before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the
> >>once "silent"
> >>majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the
>media
> >>lets on.
>
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