The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez (2006) - Heidi Specogna - Trailer

BUY IT NOW http://www.amazon.com/Short-Life-Jose-Antonio/dp/B000TLONE4/ref=sr_1_2/103-47... José Antonio Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent by US Armed Forces to war in Iraq. A few hours after the war began, his picture was broadcast all over the world: he was the first American soldier to be killed in the war. He was there as a so-called 'green-card soldier' — one of approximately 32,000, fighting in the ranks of the US Armed Forces for a foreign country.

The film tells the moving and nearly unbelievable story of a one-time street kid from Guatemala, who headed north along the Pan-American Highway — full of hopes and desires for a better future — ultimately to die an American hero far from home. Searching for the images and stories that made up this life, we set out to retrace José Antonio's path — from Guatemala through Mexico and into the USA. This story is told by the people who knew José Antonio: his friends from the street, the social workers at the orphanage, his sister, his foster family, his comrades at Camp Pendleton in the United States Marines.

But the narrators of the film are also the people we encountered as we were repeating José Antonio's odyssey from the world of the poor to the world of the rich. People who day after day join the endless stream of emigrants — with no identity, no papers — equipped with nothing but their ability to work and their willingness to turn their backs on home and family forever. José Antonio's story is no adventurer's tale. It is the story of an attempt to survive — on both sides of the world.

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[guatediva04]

does enione know where i can get this movie?

[AtopiaTube]

The DVD will be available on Amazon as of September 25, 2007.

[imthemsnguy]

war is bullshit.

[M3XX3]

respect all marines

[rickkflores]

this really want to make me cry why people like this have to die

[iKnoWScopZ]

I am Guatemalan and I am Joining the Marines After HIGH SCHOOL lot of reasons but also i can afford the money :( for college

[dontworryaboutit2110]

Someone needs to send this video to every right wing crony who believes every illegal is living off of free money. Bust his ass for this country and loses his life looking for a bullshit American dream. God this just pisses me off.

RIP Corporal.

[sickandtwisted058]

Why can't we settle with just sending our own children to die? We have to take theirs too?

[LILJ7792]

@rhs6520 lol na im in the us but i would go down to guate just for that.

[rhs6520]

that must have been my cousin who said that, i dont know sorry,but i can find out if u are there

[LILJ7792]

what strip mall? i wanna go and beat the shit outta him

[ShitMovies2000]

Because it's not that easy fool, and maybe he liked the Corps?

God bless this young man!

[MaxSafeheaD]

So much for land of the free.

In modern America it seems freedom just means capitalism.

[rosaarzola88]

He is not a soldier, he was in the Marine Corps therefore he is a Marine, soldiers are from the ARMY

and thank you Jose Antonio Gutierrez for fighting for our contry

I am in the Navy, and I know they give the suckiest job to latinos. There is a lot of discrimination.

They see us as inferior or ghetto.