Oregon PVA and Northern Lights Theatre and Pub will be sponsoring a FREE showing of Fighting for Life on November 11, 2009.

Show Times: 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm

For more information and tickets for free admission please call: 1-800-333-0782 or 503-362-7998

Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary portrait of American military medicine interweaving three stories:

Military doctors, nurses and medics, working with compassion, skill and dedication in the vortex of the Iraq War.

Wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal.

Students at USU, the “West Point” of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.

The film also follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany, and to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover and “bounce back” from the loss of a leg from an IED blast. The song, “No Surrender”—Bruce Springsteen’s haunting elegy of compassion and determination—plays over Crystal in the poignant last scene of the film.

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The filmmakers had extraordinary access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, to medevac flights with wounded soldiers, and to military hospitals in Germany and the United States.

For more information, please visit http://www.oregonpva.org