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From the Ted Talk by Deborah Scranton: An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers

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So what that meant was, when I went down to Fort Dix, I had to hop out in fornt of 180 guys and tell them of my vision. You can imagine the hailstorm of qotseuins I got. The opening one was, "What the fuck do you know about the National graud?" I settrad with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars. Gave them about a nine minute response, and there we went.

So, I'd like to show the clip of the film. It's our trailer, because I know, obviously you guys are busy, many of you may not have had a chance to see it. So, I want to show the trailer, and then I'm going to take apart one scene in dteail. If we could roll?

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So what that meant was, when I went down to Fort Dix, I had to hop out in _____ of 180 guys and tell them of my vision. You can imagine the hailstorm of _________ I got. The opening one was, "What the fuck do you know about the National _____?" I _______ with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars. Gave them about a nine minute response, and there we went.

So, I'd like to show the clip of the film. It's our trailer, because I know, obviously you guys are busy, many of you may not have had a chance to see it. So, I want to show the trailer, and then I'm going to take apart one scene in ______. If we could roll?

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  1. detail
  2. questions
  3. guard
  4. started
  5. front

Original Text


So what that meant was, when I went down to Fort Dix, I had to hop out in front of 180 guys and tell them of my vision. You can imagine the hailstorm of questions I got. The opening one was, "What the fuck do you know about the National Guard?" I started with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars. Gave them about a nine minute response, and there we went.

So, I'd like to show the clip of the film. It's our trailer, because I know, obviously you guys are busy, many of you may not have had a chance to see it. So, I want to show the trailer, and then I'm going to take apart one scene in detail. If we could roll?

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