POV Film Screening: The Way We Get By

Program Type:

Movies, Online

Age Group:

Adult, Senior
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Join us a for a free screening of the POV Documentary "The Way We Get By" directed by Aron Gaudet.

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS. www.pbs.org/pov

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They've become famous among the soldiers -- over 900,000 to date -- who have passed through the airport in Bangor, Maine, on their way to and from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among their neighbors, they've become a source of pride. To a nation wrestling with the politics behind the wars, they're an inspiration. They are the "troop greeters" of Bangor, an intrepid group of retired and elderly citizens who have taken it upon themselves to greet every troop plane arriving or departing Bangor, which is the last and first piece of U.S. soil many GIs will see before and after their deployments.