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  "The
Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends," takes an unflinching
look at the training and dehumanization of U.S. soldiers, and
how they struggle to come to terms with it when they come back
home. This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in
battle, and overjoyed returning faces, reunited with their
families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario
that can include illness, amputation and injury, depression and
post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), of which Iraq has become
a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of
veterans is not news to most, "The Ground Truth" makes
it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its
characters simply as war statistics.
The film gives us glimpses into a Marine Corps boot camp that
allows us to comprehend how a man or woman can kill as part of
their job. We get hit with more understanding of our soldiers'
dehumanization by seeing Iraq combat footage that shows routine
indiscriminate killing. Their jobs over, the confusion, guilt
and shame that comes home with these "killers" is the
tip of the iceberg. Left with few resources and families that
cannot understand what they have seen or done, their anguish
only intensifies. Foulkrod's graphic footage and
still-photographs of the ground conflict in Iraq, should forever
shatter the sanitized images found on the nightly news and
provide a much needed wake-up call for all of us.
Most
of the American people are saddened and confused by the epidemic
of suicide, violence and murder committed by U.S. troops
returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. They don't realize that the
military is the most effective mind control on Earth. After you
watch this video and listen to the soldiers themselves, you'll
understand!
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