ShareThisAlthough "Stop-Loss" director Kimberly Peirce says she has met many soldiers who were willing to return to Iraq, she understood what the main character, Brandon, felt when he was stop-lossed."He knows that him going back isn't just him going back; it's his mother having to face another absence," says Peirce. "I went through it with my mother."She said, 'You will never know fear until you've had a child being fired at in a combat zone.' She said she didn't want to come home at night from work because she knew that if my brother was killed, they would have to tell her in person, so if she wasn't there and they couldn't tell her, it didn't happen."That's what America's going through. That's what the mothers and the sisters and the daughters and the husbands and brothers are going through."Her own brother, Brett, made it back safely after one tour."He doesn't regret going," says Peirce. "I think he's glad he went, and I think he's very glad to be done. He did his time, and then he got out."(Contact Knoxville News Sentinel film critic Betsy Pickle at pickle(at)knews.com.)(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
That's what America's going through
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