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Director's Statement
"I did not plan to make this film. A woman told us about her experience viewing an exhibit of the boots of American soldiers who had died in Iraq. Men and women on either side of me started to cry. That afternoon, I took my camera, filmed the exhibit and was able to find the particular boots she had described. Later, I filmed her telling her story.
A composer, nearly as old as the soldier was so moved by the watching the boots footage that three days later, he and a fellow musician played the music in a studio recording.
I looked-up the soldier’s name on the Internet and emailed his mother. I told her that I had video footage of his boots, with an original score. I asked her permission to use the boots footage and offered to send it to her. She replied that she did not want her son to be forgotten. She wanted to tell me his story, and hers."
-Patricia Boiko