Items of Interest

Mark your calendars! First, for you Ft. Hood spouses, you may already know about the "Salute to our Heroes" event that will take place at Ft. Hood on April 11. The event is not open to the general public, only "Military and Family members, retirees, Gold Star Families, DOD civilians and contractors are invited to attend for free. More than 80,000 Soldiers, Family members and DOD civilians are expected to attend." Those of us not in the Ft. Hood area can watch the event courtesy of our friends at SyncLive, who will broadcast the event worldwide.

We'll get a behind the scenes look at the event this Thursday, when we talk with celebrity rock personality Metal Sanaz (a busy lady these days) and SyncLive CEO Aric Berquist on SBTR. Tune in at 9:00 p.m. EST by clicking here.

And for tonight....JP Borda, a good friend of SpouseBUZZ and a fellow blogger, will be one of the soldiers featured in a PBS Frontline documentary tonight. The film is called Bad Voodoo's War and was directed by another friend of SpouseBUZZ, filmmaker Deborah Scranton. I admire Deborah's work because she allows the soldiers to tell their own stories without editorial interference. I wrote a review of her first film, The War Tapes. Based on that experience, I expect great things out of tonight's film. Click here to check your local listings and find out when the film will air in your area. A preview after the jump:

Comments

[Deborah Scranton]

Thanks for the shout out so much Andi!!!!!! And as Matt of Blackfive said “I’d follow SFC Nunn into hell carrying a gasoline can anyday…”

We need more ground level narratives from the soldiers’ and Marines’ themselves in our national dialogue and media.

To help me make that happen, if you don’t mind, would you consider going to the Frontline website and sharing whatever thoughts along those lines you are comfortable with.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/

We are hoping that if enough people write in, that Frontline might consider commisioning us to do another film along the same lines with a different group of guys in the near future (because as we know, we will be 'over there' somewhere for a good long while).

Again, thanks for the mention. Nothing would make me happier than millions of Americans listening to what the soldiers of BAD VOODOO have to say.

Deborah Scranton
Director
BAD VOODOO’S WAR & THE WAR TAPES