Sept. 17 pre-screening event at the Crandall Theatre in Chatham for the movie “Thank You For Your Service” with a panel discussion including: Congressman Chris Gibson; U.S. Army Colonel Eric J. Hesse, NYS Office of Veterans Affairs; U.S. Army Lt. Colonel William W. Lecates, NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs; Tom Donahue, movie director; IIan Aboleda, movie producer. Recorded and uploaded by Dan Udell.

About the film: "Thank You for Your Service interweaves the stories of four Iraq War Veterans with interviews of top military and civilian leaders, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral Mike Mullen, Generals David Petraeus and Loree Sutton, Nicholas Kristof, Dexter Filkins, Senator Patty Murray, Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. The documentary examines why the military was not better prepared for the impact of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq on U.S. service members, the lessons forgotten from past wars and the need for wide-scale reform to prevent the loss of a generation of brave men and women."