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
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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
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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
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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. From working as
plane spotters to preparing mosquito nets
so troops were shielded from malaria, the
women who are now in their 90s had their
hands in everything.
“Well I was in high school – my last year
of high school – when a man came out from
the Treasury department asking if we had
any typists in the group because they want
to hire some typists to type war bonds,” said
local Cottage Grove resident Doris Gra-
ham. “I wasn’t a very good typist but I vol-
unteered and I went to work the day after I
graduated.”
The American Rosie the Riveter Asso-
ciation is working to plant this rose in ev-
ery congressional district by August 2020
which is the 75th Anniversary of the end of
World War II.
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