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- Marjorie Van Halteren
- Username: mvanhalteren
- Location: Lille, France
- Joined PRX: Jan 03, 2004
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- "Love and War"
- Summary: Professional soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia talk of the challenges facing themselves and their families as they prepare to go to war. Produced in 2002 as these soldiers prepared to be the first to enter Iraq.
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Review of Love and War
Marjorie Van Halteren
Posted on August 17, 2005 at 07:28 AM
There are a number of pieces out there now about what it is for ordinary men and women with lives and families to go to war - because we never stop trying to wrap our minds around that rite of passage and what it means to all of us . This half-hour look inside families as they approach and walk through that door is particularly good. Excellent interviews - and Helen Borten writes very well too. The piece is from 2002 - and is poised at the moment on the eve of the current "situation" - historical - but far from dated. Opportunities for relevance abound - sadly.
Note: (Description states program was produced in 1994 but that's not accurate).