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Most documentaries about the Iraq war have sought to investigate, expose, critique and provoke. "Fighting for Life" bucks that trend. Rather than join the polemical free-for-all of the past five years, filmmaker Terry Sanders has chosen to take viewers on a riveting, often painfully graphic journey through the extraordinary efforts of military physicians, nurses and medical aides who receive their training at the elite Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. [snip] Sanders follows his characters [snip] deep sensitivity, finally creating [snip] an unforgettable portrait of suffering, courage and resilience -- from a badly burned Iraqi toddler to...

A touching new movie about the school and how its graduates help heal our brave wounded warriors and about some of their courageous patients... Very few folks have heard of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU-HS), but it's a place we all (including the moonbats) should know something about. USU-HS is the military school that trains MANY of the docs & nurses who treat our wounded heroes from the battlefield to Walter Reed and other military hospitals around the globe. Its main campus is located on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD....

Honoring Heroes at the Holidays Tour"A Song for Their Service" - Holiday Concert   You Are Invited... Holiday Pro-Troop ConcertHonors America's Heroes Top Musical Talent to Perform at "A Song for Their Service" Lincoln Theater, Washington, D.C. Friday, December 14, 2007 - 8:00 PM (Washington, D.C.) A special one-night-only holiday pro-troop concert will honor America's military men and women this Friday, December 14, 2007 at 8:00 PM. The "A Song for Their Service" concert will take place at the historic Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C. (1215 U Street NW).The concert is open to the public, and ticket prices are $45...

Corporate Hillton Apparatchiks have given credence to the old adage, “No good deed goes unpunished” by their not renewing Fran O’Brien’s renewable lease. Since October of 2003 Hal Koster, a two-tour Vietnam veteran and Jim Mayer, a combat injured Vietnam veteran and long time advocate for veterans and a small group of volunteers have been hosting a dinner each and every Friday night for the severely injured patients of Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Ward 57 and severely injured sailors and Marines at Bethesda Naval Medical Center and their families. This was begun as part of a promise to insure...