Veterans Day 2010 Presentation; President Reagan and Stryper

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Uploaded by BEYONDtheWALLroa on Nov 9, 2008

The collage/montage was produced by sceneologist Ruben Avila, commissioned by Pastor Israel Soto to commemorate the sacrifice made by our brave Men and Women and celebrate Veteran's Day.
The artist utilized video clips and music that were assembled in order to communicate the message of accepting the call to risk it all for Freedom. Avila states; "I wanted to make the viewer recall the dark side of war and the real peril experienced by its participants. The decision to focus the footage on the Korean War was because it tends to be the forgotten war, yet in retrospect proved to be the start of the war we still fight for today on the battlefield of idealism."
The decision to use the music of STRYPER further iconizes the imagery in a sense that war and conflict are both ancient and modern manifestation of man.
Excerpts from President Ronald Reagan's famous speech "These are the boys of Point du Hoc" further add to the sentiment of what it is to be a soldier. The speech is used because of the universality and themology that all soldiers cleave first onto the belief in God, and then their weapons while on the battlefiled. The key rhetorical phrase of the speech, "Yet you risked everything here, why, why did you do it?" Semper Fi.

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