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Truth (2015)
A Refreshing Look Back
I loved this movie. The taint of "Memogate" stuck in my mind during the rare times I thought about Vietnam era Bush. This movie reminded me of how I felt at the time. Yes, okay, maybe those particular memos were questionable. But was it true that people used influence to get an under qualified Bush into the National Guard? Is true that he didn't fulfill his obligations while there? Is it true the unit to which he belonged was populated by the sons of other powerful men; to the degree it earned the nickname...the 'Champagne' unit? As the daughter of a Vietnam vet ( and all that entails) I was left frustrated by the obsession with those two pieces of paper to the exclusion of all else. There were questions which needed answering, questions that had to do with important things, like, honor, courage, humility and, yes...truth. But once the memos came into question, the story became the story. And everyone stopped asking the important questions in favor of scandalmongering. I'd forgotten. Memogate had it's effect on me as well, over time those questions were wiped from my own mind. TRUTH was a fresh look at what many of us excepted as established history.