PORT ANGELES — A special screening of “Lioness,” a film about women in combat, is set for 12:35 p.m. Thursday at Peninsula College.
The free screening, scheduled in advance of Veterans Day, will be in the Little Theater on the Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
It is sponsored by the Magic of Cinema, Peninsula College’s Veterans Services Office, Studium Generale and Peninsula College’s Foothills Writers Series.
Lioness tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct ground combat.
Without the same training as their male counterparts but with a commitment to serve as needed, the young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans.
Lioness makes public, for the first time, their hidden history.
Told through intimate accounts, journal excerpts, archival footage, as well as interviews with military commanders, the film follows five Lioness women who served together for a year in Iraq. The women tell of their experiences in Iraq and scenes from their lives back home form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war.
For more information, contact Helen Lovejoy at hlovejoy@pencol.edu or 360-417-6362.
