Ground Truth
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- November
- 29
About 100 students and community members trekked across the soggy SUNY Purchase campus last night to a screening of The Ground Truth, a documentary about the U.S. soldiers fighting the war in Iraq.
The film weaves in-depth interviews of about half a dozen veterans with footage of the fighting and glimpses of the lives the troops have returned to stateside. We learn why they went, what they did in Iraq, and why they came home convinced the war must end now.
Demond Mullins, a returned National Guardsman from Brooklyn featured in the film, attended the screening and answered questions.
“I spent 365 days in Iraq and I still don’t know the purpose behind it,” said Mullins, who joined the National Guard after he ran out of money for college. “My buddy died there. A truck I was in was blown up while I was in it. I went through a very dark time redefining who I was when I got back. It was very painful.”
Joining Iraq Veterans Against the War has helped him cope with the isolation he feels among people removed from the violence in Iraq, Mullins said.
Working for the organization’s three goals gives his life a sense of purpose, he said.
Those aims are: an immediate troop withdrawal, adequate medical and psychological care for veterans, and reparations to the Iraqi people for “the egregious offenses we have committed,” Mullins said.
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