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This Friday, July 17th, 7:30 p.m. at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, Operation Gratitude is hosting the only Los Angeles screening of Brothers at War, the winner of the GI Film Festival for Best Documentary.

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. Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq, and 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 to their parents, siblings, wives and children and 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.

A question and answer session with Director Jake Rademacher and Producer Norman S. Powell will follow the screening.

Tickets to the screening are $20; every ticket purchased sends a care package overseas. Tickets can be purchased online here, or at the Alex Theatre box office (818.243.2539).

Operation Gratitude is a non-profit, volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages of items and letters addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile overseas regions. More information about the organization and its events is on its website.