Hill of Beans

I just finished watching the "Hurt Locker".  I've had it here for several weeks because I wasn't sure I could actually watch it.  Tonight I finally decided to give it a shot...if I couldn't watch, I could always turn it off.  It is a very intense film and at times it was difficult to watch.

The drama of seeking out and dismantling the IED's makes for a good film, but the hardest part, for me, about this movie, is that it is all based on true events.  Maybe not the stories of these particular guys but events that happen all the time in Iraq and Afghanistan.  I was struck by how these guys go out every day and save the lives of people they don't know (and their fellow soldiers) in another country.  Fighting for something they may or may not believe is right but they do it.  They put their lives on the line every day and then come home to the US and are expected to put what they saw/did behind them and move forward. 

Watching this movie made me realize that my problems, my heartbreak...really don't amount to a hill of beans.