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My Thoughts

Well, this is heartwarming on a very profound level. It’s real. It’s something we all need to see. Something we all need to respect. We need to realize what it means when that soldier says, “Alive like you’ve never been before.”

Synopsis

BROTHERS AT WAR is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time.  Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake’s exploits as he risks everything—including his life—to tell his brothers’ story.

Embedded in the Action

Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, BROTHERS AT WAR is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to U.S. and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper “Hide Sites” in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army.  Ultimately, the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents, siblings, wives and children.  BROTHERS AT WAR provides a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the frontlines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind.

www.brothersatwarmovie.com

Mark Twain

Again this list could go one for a while and I will be putting specific comments about each and favorite quotes as time allows.

5th Discipline Fieldbook – Senge

Mastery – Leonard

Break from the Pack – Harari

The Fourth Turning – Strauss

Blind Man’s Bluff – Sontag

The Book of Five Rings – Mushashi

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – Perkins

Blue Ocean Strategy – Kim

Day of Reckoning – Buchanan

Cash Values – Gay

Gates of Fire – Pressfield

A History of Economic Thought – Robins

Economics as Religion – Nelson

The Creature from Jekyll Island – Griffin

Sword and Brush – Lowry

Crucial Conversations – Patterson

Rainforest  Strategy – Pink

Life and Works of Escher – Fellows

Milestones – Chambers

Being and Nothingness – Sartre

Critique of Pure Reason – Kant

Autonomy and Independence in Language Learning – Candlin

An Education for Our Time – Bunting III

“How did the frontier colony of Virginia produce, in one generation, George Washington, George Mason, Patrick Henry, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Wythe? At a time when their coadjutors included Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton? The historian reminds us that the clichés are insufficient explanation: great challenges draw forth great talents; (or) the best talents have nowhere else to go, to serve, in such days. But does he find part of the answer in the Founders’ education? They were soaked in the history of Rome and Greece, and they studied Greek and Latin. They knew their Bible; they were children of the political philosophers of the Enlightenment. They had for the most part no degrees, as they had, for the most part, no university education. Yet they thought more clearly, considered more self-reliantly, wrote more accurately and eloquently, than we.”

J. Bunting III

Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning – Wilson

Philosophical Investigations – Wittgenstein

Political Writings – Augustine

The Politics – Aristotle

The Republic – Plato

Modern Logic – Forbes

Jefferson’s Children – Botstein

Flow Psychology of Optimal Experience – Csikszentmihalyi

Wild at Heart – Eldredge

The Field – McTaggart

The Elegant Universe – Greene

Can Man Live Without God – Zacharias

Van Til’s Apologetics – Bahnsen

Amusing Ourselves to Death – Postman

The Craft of Intelligence – Dulles

The World is Flat – Friedman

Killer Elite – Smith

Memorial Day – Flynn

Dancing Wu Li Masters – Zukav

Consent to Kill – Flynn

Teeth of the Tiger – Clancy

Clear and Present Danger – Clancy

The Broker – Grisham

A Whole New Mind – Pink

Freakonomics – Levitt

Million Dollar Consulting – Weiss

The Age of Heretics – Kleiner

Carry a Big Stick – Grant

Don’t Make Me Think – Krug

100 Decisive Battles – Davis

Barefoot Zen – Johnson

Dynamic Karate – Nakayama

Secrets of the Samurai – Ratti

On the Wealth of Nations – O’Rourke

The Movie Heat

Again this list could go one for a while and I will be putting specific comments about each as time allows. But for now, here’s just a list.

Heat

Collateral

Miami Vice

Enter the Dragon

The New World

Bourne Identity

Bourne Supremacy

Bourne Ultimatum

Empire Strikes Back

Patton

Black Hawk Down

The Matrix

Fight Club

Truman Show

Enemy At the Gates

Shooter

The Edge

Manchurian Candidate (Denzel Washington)

Training Day

Platoon

Minority Report

Casino Royale

Full Metal Jacket

Why We Fight

16 Blocks

JFK

The Last Samurai

Seven Samurai

Gladiator

Spy Game

Firefox

Ronin

The Heist

Hero – Jet Li

The Godfather (1, 2, 3)

We Were Soldiers

The Patriot

Glory

Blue and the Gray

Schindler’s List

Saving Private Ryan

Letters from Iwo Jima

Top Gun

Sneakers

Amadeus

The Fisher King

The 13th Warrior

Mad Max

Finding Forrester

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Red Dawn

The Terminator

The Seven Samurai

Ran

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Empire Strikes Back

The Thin Red Line

A River Runs Through It

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Departed

Dances with Wolves

Clear and Present Danger

War Games

Snatch

3:10 T0 Yuma

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Mission

Network

Legends of the Fall

The Shawshank Redemption

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Rush Hour

Hot Rod

Gangs of New York

Dune

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

reasons later…

Miles Davis - Master Innovator

(This list could go on for days. I have over 2000 CD’s in my collection)

Again this list could go one for a while and I will be putting specific comments about each as time allows. But for now, here’s just a list.

Jazz:

Miles Davis

Dizzy Gillisepie

Michael Brecker

Bob Berg

Mike Stern

Kenny Garrett

Wynton Marsalis

Herbie Hancock

Chick Corea

Weather Report

Rock:

Van Halen

Rush

Living Color

Rage Against the Machine

Def Leopard

Audioslave

Dave Matthews

Journey

Moby

U2

John Mayer

Maroon 5

Pop:

Annie Lenox

Imogen Heap

Sara Bareilles

ABC

Duran Duran

Bananarama

Depeche Mode

Kylie Minogue

Madonna

Rihanna

US3

Will Smith

Prince

Toto

Thomas Dolby

R&B Soul Rap:

Nellie

Kool & the Gang

Sheila E

Whitney Houston

Notorious BIG

Eminem

Dance:

BT

Movie and TV Music:

Theme from the “A-Team”

Theme from “Magnum PI”

Theme from “Miami Vice” * Top Honors*

Miami Vice Movie

Insider Movie

Casino Royale Movie

Empire Strikes Back Movie

Bourne (All Three) Movies