Bedford: The Town They Left Behind (2009)

Bedford: The Town They Left Behind plot

Bedford, Virginia, was a small town that was hit hard during the Great Depression, so many young men joined the local branch of the National Guard as a way to earn some extra money. Volunteers were paid one dollar a weekend when they participated in the training and some of these shooters found that this made them popular with the girls, who liked to be seen with a man in uniform. Few of them ever expected that Bedford's National Guard would be called up to serve as soldiers in World War II, or find themselves on the front lines of the 1944 D-Day invasion. The casualty rate was very high and Bedford lost more men per capita on D-Day than any other city in America. In 2004, many Bedford residents thought history would repeat itself when, for the first time since the end of World War II, the Bedford Nation Guardsmen were drafted and boarded to be dispatched to Iraq.

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