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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MARCH 14, 2018 9A Vietnam vet to screen wartime fi lm at Brewstation By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com M arc Waszkiewicz took more than 4,000 photo- graphs when he was in Vietnam with a camera he won in a poker game during his fi rst few weeks overseas. He snapped photos of the landscape, gear, tanks and SOUTH LANE COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE The Only Emergency Medical Transport Service in South Lane County Community Public Education: • CPR/AED • Heart Attack Recognition • Fall Prevention • Stroke Prevention • Fire Prevention • Fire Extinguishers • Fire-Med Membership Call 541-942-4493 for info. FOR EMERGENCY DIAL 911 Serving South Lane County. www.southlanefi re.org his friends and then he packed them away in shoeboxes and didn’t look at them for decades. He forgot about his three tours. About how he lay on the fl oor of the jungle with bullet holes in his body, in between his friends and the enemy, one waiting for the other to blink and come retrieve him. He for- got about the pictures. And he forgot about the fi lm. He forgot about everything as he walked with his wife, on vacation, and stumbled upon the traveling Vietnam Veteran Memorial wall. "I saw it. And then I saw peo- ple laying mementos. I saw how they decorated. I saw all the names," he said. He saw a glass box with a ted- dy bear. And a note. "You could never sleep with- out this bear, Johnny. I hope now you can rest in peace," it was signed "Mom." Waszkiewicz remembered. "I'd been in Vietnam." He remembered the pictures and he remembered the fi lm. The 80s came and with it, per- mission to make movies about Vietnam. He met Lea Jones—a music producer-- and over the course of more than 20 years, splits, reunions and re-tooling the pair created a fi lm: “Viet- nam: An InnerView.” The fi lm has made the rounds of local fi lm festival and on Sunday, March 18, it will land in Cottage Grove at the Brew- station for another showing. “The fi lm is a lot like the book,” Jones said, referring to Waszkiewicz’s photo book currently on stands at the Book Mine in Cottage Grove, “it’s very slice of life-y.” When Waszkiewicz and Jones met, all Waszkiewicz had were photos and an idea. Through a bit of collaboration, the pair opted to create a soundtrack to accompany the photos. “I wasn’t a protestor but was against the war and wasn’t en- amored with vets which wasn’t unusual at that time,” Jones said. “I didn’t really want to have anything to do with the project but dove in mainly be- cause I was resisting it so hard. We worked for about a year making those songs. Put the songs on a cassette and it didn’t go anywhere even though it was well-received by some people for what it was.” The duo lost touch after Jones moved to the east coast and didn’t connect again un- til 2007 when Jones sought Rosies Continued from A1 home during World War II, was happy to see the women being honored because “the actual people that did the work are getting kind of rare.” With the mayor of Springfi eld on hand and messages from representatives around the state read to the group, the group cele- brated the fi rst Rosie the Riveter Memorial garden in the state of Oregon. The language SAVE $1000 On Most of Our Digital Product Line (Based on 2 Instruments) Not to be combined with any other offer. Previous purchases excluded. EXPIRES 3/31/18 Waszkiewicz’s permission to re-release the cassette for the anniversary of the Vietnam Me- morial Wall. Secretary of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Keith King heard the cassette at the event and encouraged the pair to keep working. “In 2010, Marc got in touch with me again and said two of his best friends from the photos had killed themselves in the last few years,” Jones said. Wasz- kiewicz wanted to alter the proj- ect and dedicate it to veterans in crisis and to bring awareness to veteran suicide. “Vietnam: An InnerView” weaves Waszkiewicz’s photos in with pieces of the soundtrack created 30 years ago and in- terviews from Waskiewicz’s fellow veterans about their ser- vice and the complications they faced coming home. “We’re grabbing my big TV from my living room with a sound system and having a showing,” Jones said. The fi rst fi ve veterans (not in the same group) to attend the viewing will receive a free copy of the fi lm, photo book and soundtrack. “This is Marc’s story but Marc’s story is the horse car- rying the six other stories that come from these other veter- ans,” Jones said. “Vietnam: An InnerView” is showing on March 18 at the Brewstation. Doors open at 3 p.m., the fi lm starts at 4 p.m. PHOTOS COURTESY MARC WASZKIEWICZ Photos from Marc Waskiewicz's collection will be featured in the documentary "Vietnam: An InnerView" on March 18 at the Brewstation located at 106 S. 6th St. in Cottage Grove. describing the fl ower that was planted as be- ing “beautiful, hardy and independent” was also used to describe the women who were honored at the ceremony. When the U.S. got involved in World War II and men went off to fi ght in 1941, it was the women at home who took on new re- sponsibilities to prepare for the war effort. The national group that was created in 1998 was named after the iconic Rosie the Riveter image that promoted women in the work force and celebrates the women who in those years were working. “The Rosies have said that they didn’t even think about the work that they did in World War II un- til this organization started. And now that we have this organization and we’ve been doing events nationwide and letting people know that it’s growing in interest and growing in interest for all ages of people,” said Dr. Yvonne Fasold a Cot- tage Grove High School graduate of 1963 and former American Rosie the Riveter As- sociation president. At Friday’s event women who worked during World War II, or their daughters or granddaughters who are called Rose Buds, shared what they did. 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