What has Johnny got?

Johnny can feel the son on his face but cannot comment on it. He has a desire not so much to make himself productive but to be among people.
His brain begins to provide images he cannot correctly interpret - even the debonair Donald Sutherland Jesus might not really be there. Johnny, in his vision, communicates with Donald/Jesus that becuase his psyical reality to so widely disconnected from input, he no longer can tell what is real. Getting paid to sit in the sun seems a good option.

Johnny is the victim of the empire that believes the war can be won, that believes agressive actions cause agression to be eased at which point true BUSINESS can come in (a few of our good friends and ardent supporters, perhaps) and fix the damage. Without fixing the Johnnies occasionally developing from our inability to cope.

This is not a move that attempts to shocks. It simply requires that you not slip away. It wants to confront a truly legimate evidence of what war creates and how, at Walter Reed and many other places, tries to get the guy either fixed up to go back out and keep fighting, or to go home and learn to cope.

This movie fried me in my teens. From "Andersonville Trial" to "Judgement at Nuremberg" and on and on , the Army demands obedience but then is oftended when one does not cope well with an immoral command. Johnny is the poster boy for the reasons not to further enable this nonsense with our sons and daughters.

This movie is a poem, crying to the world about what violence costs us. How it infiltrates our hearts until we are victim to sensation alone.

I will never forget Johnny and what he lost - his ability to recognize reality. It is a disturbing picture, but very real. Take a 15 year old to see it and then help him focus on his soon-to-be-required registration form. Help him recognize he does not need to put him into the position where he could belome dependant on others just because he needed to be in place for the empire. Help him process what he wants to do, how this can help, and how often do promises come true.

No more Johnnys; let us not give him this gift to cope with.

See the film. Meet Johnny. You confront the options. And Johnny remains pleasant and friendly and courteous. Think about Johnnys beling flown further west so they are less accessible to news cameras. Wait in line with a Johnny test marketing his new artificial leg. And think about why our opinion of what another country's government causes this pile of crippled kids, crippled in mind, in body and in souls.

Meet Johnny. Let him be the last.

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