PTSD affects many of our veterans countrywide. Some have found out how to cope with it, whether that be through medical means or personnel means. Some others unfortunately still are experiencing it at the smallest bump in the night. For Ray Mendoza, it was this movie.

The movie “Warfare” was not just some fun reenactment for good old times, but rather a much deeper meaning. During the Battle of Ramadi on November 19 2006, Mendoza’s platoon came under heavy fire by enemy forces, which was heavy artillery explosions on them. This resulted in his friend Elliot Miller suffering a huge head injury, which would later result in him having major memory loss which made him forget the entire mission.

All the action, the fighting, his friends that were lost along the way, and everything he did, was completely lost. Ray Mendoza wanted to honor him along with the is friends that day with a move dedicated to their endless sacrifice to their country. So Mendoza gathered all his remaining friends from that day and together, they made the movie based on their memories and collection of events.

“I thought it was pretty good, and I liked how it looked very real,” sophomore Mohamed Abugeith said. “I liked it a lot and I was very intrigued to see it.”

Some people feel that it has a strong sense, and brings something out of them.

“I was sitting next to some people in the theater and some of them were like old people,” sophomore Cameron Strizek said. “At some moments in the movie there were like old people who liked physically jumped and you could see how they got scared of the movie. I think some of them were veterans because of their reactions.”