Description
Gold Star Mom struggles to manage her emotions, guilt, and memories of her son, and only child killed in Iraq in 2005. For years she concealed the rawness of his death from friends and family. While tending bar in one of Philadelphia’s popular bar and grill’s a patron and friend unintentionally raises issues around how the Iraq war started, and more importantly why. The possibility that oil drove the U.S. government decision to invade Iraq exposed emotions she had to that point contained. Now they surfaced as anguish and created havoc, threatening to take her places she could never have imagined.
Description
Gold Star Mom struggles to manage her emotions, guilt, and memories of her son, and only child killed in Iraq in 2005. For years she concealed the rawness of his death from friends and family. While tending bar in one of Philadelphia’s popular bar and grill’s a patron and friend unintentionally raises issues around how the Iraq war started, and more importantly why. The possibility that oil drove the U.S. government decision to invade Iraq exposed emotions she had to that point contained. Now they surfaced as anguish and created havoc, threatening to take her places she could never have imagined.