Memorial Day / Decoration Day

[Chivewarrior]

My Memorial Day thing was actually on Sunday-- my theater class did a staged reading of a play called American Tet, about the family of a Vietnam vet whose son is serving in Iraq and is coming home on leave. It's all about the effect of war on the soldiers and their families, and how they're never the same after having been in a war. I was in two scenes-- one scene as the wife, and one as a female soldier who threw herself on a bomb in Iraq to save others but whose body was so destroyed by that (and whose mind was so destroyed by the PTSD) that she commits suicide at the end. It's a very intense play; it comes down hard against war, but it does so by treating the soldiers very respectfully and showing all the damage it does to them and their dependents.

Is that by any chance the play written by Stryk?

Yup! I take it you're familiar with it?

[n11pilot]

My Memorial Day thing was actually on Sunday-- my theater class did a staged reading of a play called American Tet, about the family of a Vietnam vet whose son is serving in Iraq and is coming home on leave. It's all about the effect of war on the soldiers and their families, and how they're never the same after having been in a war. I was in two scenes-- one scene as the wife, and one as a female soldier who threw herself on a bomb in Iraq to save others but whose body was so destroyed by that (and whose mind was so destroyed by the PTSD) that she commits suicide at the end. It's a very intense play; it comes down hard against war, but it does so by treating the soldiers very respectfully and showing all the damage it does to them and their dependents.

Is that by any chance the play written by Stryk?

Yup! I take it you're familiar with it?

Yes, I haven't seen it performed but I have read it.