In the U.S. army, the friendship between two Mexican recruits is born of their shared love for music. Tragedy strikes the pair, leaving only one behind with no music left in him.

Upon hearing about an upcoming wedding, a former American soldier reminisces about the time he met a young girl who gave him the recourse to survive the war.

Speaking of his past experiences, a Vietnam War veteran describes the darker, unspoken details of life as a soldier that people often overlook.

When a woman’s husband accepts his army commission for World War II, the woman can only watch with despair as her husband's battalion joins the ranks of those expected to perish in war.

A homosexual military sergeant, with no use for his money after his parent’s estrangement, attempts to support the destitute family of a soldier just shipped off to Iraq.

Fifteen members of the United States Marines tell stories about their time serving in Europe during World War I.

A veteran tells his acquaintance about his darkest memories as a solider the Vietnam War.

A thirteen-year-old boy forms an unlikely friendship through music with a sickly boy from Pakistan.

After six years of bloody civil war, the relationship between an army commander and her quartermaster wife has foundered and it’s unclear whether their love will last through the final battle.

A U.S. squadron deployed in Afghanistan during the War on Terror is followed by a mysterious Afghan boy with a personal connection to one of the soldiers.