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Anderson, now 31, served six months in Iraq as part of Operation: Iraqi Freedom, and his military experience didn’t exactly turn out the way he envisioned it when he was 18. After seeing starving Iraqi children performing cartwheels for him, hoping he would give them food, after being dropped into a war zone with inadequate body armor and no ammunition, he’s a changed man. Now a nationally known speaker and peace activist, Anderson’s story is one of survival, pain and ultimately his hope and love for America.
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``The Ground Truth" depicts a chaotic, undersupported American presence while giving the lie to assertions that Iraqi civilian deaths are minimal. ``You don't go to war in a country and not go to war with its people," says former US Marine Charles Anderson. Others talk of being shot at by unseen gunmen and taking out every local in sight in response. ``It works; it's efficient," says ex-Marine corporal Sean Huze. In the most harrowing anecdote, Sarra describes shooting an approaching woman and only afterward finding the white flag in her hand. No one wins: The woman loses her life, Sarra loses his soul.
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The 12 men and one woman included one veteran of Afghanistan, and they represented the Army, Marines and Navy. They were young, intense, disillusioned. Home from the war, on yesterday's fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, they wanted to bring the war home to Washington.