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A New Play Tells Real Soldiers' Tales
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Seven Days
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August 20, 2008
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Jen Berger has an ear for heart-wrenching tales. As director of the Burlington Peace & Justice Center's 4-year-old "Recruiting for Peace" campaign, the 36-year-old activist travels to high schools around Vermont telling teens what recruiters won't: that war is not nearly as fun as glossy Army press materials would have them think. While educating students about their right to "opt out" of school-sanctioned recruiter databases. Berger relays real-life stories from modem-day soldiers.
Last winter, she realized those stories were brimming with dramatic potential. Having helped stage-manage productions in Burlington for a few years, she'd heard about the "New Art Space Assistance," ...
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