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Countdown to Zero [message #118996]

Thu, 29 July 2010 21:30

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Registered: February 2010

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Haven't seen it yet but intrigued by the Huffington Post review: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-fine/huffpost-review- icountdow_b_657151.html

Showing in America at the minute with lots of free tickets for grabs: http://www.globalzero.org/film/freeticket

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Re: Countdown to Zero [message #119048 is a reply to message #118996 ]

Sun, 01 August 2010 07:44

Mark of Lewiston

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I haven't seen it. But I did help build a fallout shelter in the early 60s. I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and learned to "duck and cover" and got thoroughly scared as a kid. I has stuck with me.

I also remember my Dad telling me that if a nuclear war happens, it will be easier on those who die than any survivors. he told me this when he was writing the nuclear civil defense plans for the State of California prison system.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov
Mark of Lewiston

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Re: Countdown to Zero [message #119074 is a reply to message #119048 ]

Tue, 03 August 2010 22:59

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I hope I never experience war, but I love hearing others tell of their own experiences. There is a certain power to re-telling a war experience that makes the listener shudder. Thank you.

I will look out for when the movie opens here and think of the shelter you built and what your father said. I hope we never get to experience it.

Maybe that is what this forum should try to do, besides arguing over news articles, people should share their stories of the Middle East conflict, how it affected them personally. Small everyday happenings. Memories. Dreams. it is about the people at the end of the day isn't it?

Very saddened by the loss of life in the last few days. I can't imagine how much more difficult it must be for the people in the region, to whom every life lost is a person they might know.

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