070318.cbc.the.passionate.eye.the.ground.truth.after.the.killing.ends.640x464.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi

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CBC - The Passionate Eye
The Ground Truth - After the Killing Ends
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General Information
Type.................: documentary
More Information.....: (none)
Technical Information
Source...............: NTSC CABLE
AVI Size.............: 721,352,704 bytes
Duration.............: 01:07:27
FPS..................: 29.97

Video Codec..........: XviD
Codec DCT......: H263
QPel...........: No
GMC............: No
Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR)
Video Resolution.....: 640x464
Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379

Audio Format.........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92
Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR)
Hz...................: 48000
Channels.............: Stereo
Captured by..........: festering leper
Description
During the early weeks of the war in Iraq, U.S. military officials believed
victory would come quickly and few soldiers would be lost. But over the past
four years, thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed and many more thousands
have returned home physically and psychologically wounded. In The Ground Truth,
filmmaker Patricia Foulkrod delivers a searing look at how U.S. soldiers
struggle to come to terms with their experience upon returning home.

Instead of the glamorized pictures of happy reunions after the victors emerge
from the trenches, viewers see the all too common repercussions: illness,
amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD)-
of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. The filmmaker's subjects
are patriotic young Americans, ordinary men and women who heeded the call for
military service in Iraq. They've experienced recruitment and training and
combat, however, the conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more
challenging battles fought by the soldiers as they return home and struggle to
come to terms with their personal demons, an uncomprehending public and what
many feel is an indifferent government.

Foulkrod's graphic footage and still photographs of the ground conflict in
Iraq will forever shatter for viewers the sanitized images found on the
nightly news.

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