Reply #57: I saw it for the third time yesterday.... [View All]

[Lindsey]

The last two times I've seen it, I've basically cried from the very beginning when the cbc were f'ing heroes up there on that terrible, terrible day. I saw it as it was happening in real time too. There were so many scenes that I'll NEVER, EVER forget. I cried espcecially when:
Lila described in detail how she got "the call" telling her that her son had been killed and how she fell to the floor and had to crawl because she simply couldn't walk;when she read his last letter;when she sobbed outside of the White House - so many things about her story left me heart broken.

The woman in Bagdad who was hysterical and asking God why this was happening.

The family in Iraq whose home was invaded on Christmas Eve and they were sobbing saying, "he's only a college student." and that kid was on the floor with his hands tied behind his back....jesus christ....did anyone else feel like the U.S. was acting like the Nazi's when they saw this particular scene?!?!?

The young men in the army hospital who'd lost their limbs...it simply made me sick..sick to death..

The marine who said he wasn't going over there to kill more poor people like him.

The children and babies who's bodies were in the back of that truck and that man screaming.."who did they kill."

and, yes, the ending when Michael's voice was so incredibly eloquent when he said that our young men and women in the military only ask that we put them in harms way (or something like that) if it's absolutely necessary.

No other film has EVER effected me the way this one has. I sometimes feel like the words Michael used in the very beginning, "was it all just a dream." I honest to God pray some nights that I'll wake up and it really will have all been a dream...or at the very least...I've been in an alternate universe for the past few years and one morning soon I'll wake up and be in the other universe....the one that where up is up, down is down, and I'm proud of my country again. :-(