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"Service : When Women Come Marching Home" the Documentary. Their webpage is - (http://servicethefilm.com/index.php). The link above is to the Documentary and you can watch it for free.
"SERVICE, the film, portrays the courage of several women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives. We see the horrific traumas they faced, their invisible as well as physical injuries and all their challenges in receiving benefits and care. We follow them through the large and small accomplishments they work mightily to achieve.
From the deserts of Afghanistan to rural Tennessee, from Iraq to New York City, we watch these women wrestle with prosthetics, homelessness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma. The documentary is told through their voices as they speak from their kitchens, bedrooms, grocery stores and therapy sessions. Their pictures and videos shot in Iraq and Afghanistan speak volumes.
The film is part of a much larger project. Through robust social media, SERVICE continues supporting women through open and closed Facebook groups where women can exchange information, find friendship and share solutions that have changed their lives.
Women compose 14% of today's military forces. That number is expected to double in 10 years. Service introduces the issues faced by this wave of mothers, daughters and sisters as they return home. We want to wake up a sleeping civilian population to the challenges women face.
"SERVICE, the film, portrays the courage of several women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives. We see the horrific traumas they faced, their invisible as well as physical injuries and all their challenges in receiving benefits and care. We follow them through the large and small accomplishments they work mightily to achieve.
From the deserts of Afghanistan to rural Tennessee, from Iraq to New York City, we watch these women wrestle with prosthetics, homelessness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma. The documentary is told through their voices as they speak from their kitchens, bedrooms, grocery stores and therapy sessions. Their pictures and videos shot in Iraq and Afghanistan speak volumes.
The film is part of a much larger project. Through robust social media, SERVICE continues supporting women through open and closed Facebook groups where women can exchange information, find friendship and share solutions that have changed their lives.
Women compose 14% of today's military forces. That number is expected to double in 10 years. Service introduces the issues faced by this wave of mothers, daughters and sisters as they return home. We want to wake up a sleeping civilian population to the challenges women face.
Service: When Women Come Marching Home
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Women in the Military
PTSD
Military Sexual Trauma (MST)
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan
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This is just purely an historical observation pls understand, I understand about the WASP mbrs as pilots in ww2, I just thought you all might care to read of the numerous female combat svc mbrs of the US OSS and UK SOE during ww2 lost in combat and or caught and lost as spies. Read abt an Indian princess in the UK SOE named I believe noor khan or a fairly close spelling, then there was Julia child the famous French chef on PBS as well as numerous others. There were also thinking numerous female nurses, especially in the Pacific though also in Europe I'd read many accounts of their having been caught and in POW camps by the Japanese , and the account of margaret utinsky a European national married I believe to amus svc mbr I think who ran much of the resistance to the Japanese occupation of Manila in the phillipines and rcvd the US medal of freedom I think from Pres Truman depicted with only very slight historical inaccuracy in the film The Great Raid about the army 2nd ranger battln liberation of the Cabanatuan POW camp of the Japanese for Bataan death march survivors. Look also if you've never readmit at the Wikipedia account of Mary E Walker MD the one and only!female recipient of the Medal of Honor in US history as a union army contract surgeon in the civil war who abjectly and quite rightly refused to give it back apparently I'd read when ordered to, whose story I've always wanted to see filmed. There was a cable TV film on I think HBO though uncertain abt a little known apparent female mbr of Lincoln's cabinet cryptically pseudo nondepicted in a famous painting by an empty chair in a painting of Lincoln with his cabinet due to the prevailing Victorian sentiments of the period though I unfortunately can't recall her name at the moment.
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SSG Nicholas Wright
Brief WSJ article on Julia Childs' espionage career: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB [login to see] 4851347
"Julia Child a Spy!" exulted headlines after the release of OSS personnel files by the National Archives. While that conjures up fictional narrative fantasies, the facts are infinitely more prosaic, if fascinating nonetheless.
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SSG Nicholas Wright
Capt Daniel Goodman - The "secret cabinet member" sounds like Anna Ella Carroll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ella_Carroll], and a copy of the painting with the empty chair can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ella_Carroll#/media/File:Emancipation_proclamation.jpg
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Oh yeah right I'd forgotten many thanks I'd seen some of the film on her on I believe HBO as I recall though I might be wrong it'd been on cable TV here by us awhile back , you ever get to see it at all? Just wondering, many thanks, and I'll look at the Julia childs website as well when I get a chance also, of course.
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I empathize for them but lets keep some as wounded warriors to help those cope and not board them out! Let not throw them away like we did the women pilots of WW2!
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