ITEM OVERVIEW
2001, 28 min. Videotape produced in collaboration with ROOTS and Paper Tiger Television, with music from the AWOL CD. This tape is an update of the It's Not Just a Job video produced by Paper Tiger TV and War Resisters League in the early 1990s, which has been used widely by activists and educators in allowing young people to make more balanced decisions about their future. Young people are smacked with military advertisements and recruiters coming into schools and communities offering sign up bonuses, money for education, and job training. Military Myths takes a critical look at the military's promises. It considers how media representations of war and military life compare to the reality of war told by veterans who have actually been there. In addition, interviews with activists and students are presented along with statistics from the Veterans Administration, CCCO, SLDN, and recent Pentagon studies that lay clear the myths of military life. 28 minutes.
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