February 20, 2015
Afghanistan veterans, agent orange, birth defects, depleted uranium, dioxin, DU, gulf war illness, gulf war veterans, Gulf Wars, GWI, Iraq veterans, military exposures, military families, ptsd, tcdd, VA, veterans children, Vietnam veterans, Vietnam War
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The result is Trooper, a beautiful, heart-wrenching film that offers far more than empathy. It dares viewers to explore a disturbing corner of the Iraq War, a realm that no film has yet to touch: the blight of depleted uranium poisoning, which has infected thousands of Iraq veterans but isĀ yet to be acknowledged by the Pentagon and is virtually unknown to the American public.
The film follows Murphy O’Shea (Martini), a specialist who returns home from Operation Iraqi Freedom to a New York City suffused with sunshine and tranquility. Murphy’s friends welcome him home, but the specialist feels strangely locked out of their joy and clouded by an odd illness.