Film to examine children of war

The Museum of the American Military Family (MAMF) is bringing “Battlefield: Home — Breaking the Silence,” a documentary film about being a child of war, to Albuquerque’s South Broadway Cultural Center on Saturday, Nov. 11.

Filmmaker Anita Sugimura Holsapple, whose mother survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki and whose father served with the Marines in Vietnam, will present the film, along with a Q-&-A session about the film and her experiences as a child of war.

Holsapple says her film raises the question “What makes war even more dangerous?” and points out that “it is the silence that warriors and families hold.”

The event will run from

3-5 p.m. at the center, 1025 Broadway SE in Albuquerque.

The next day, MAMF will host in its Tijeras Galleries an authors’ reception and readings from “War Child,” its newest book, a collection of first-hand stories by service members who were deployed into combat while teenagers, adults who, as children, grew up in a war zone, and children who experienced a parent or sibling serving in war.

MAMF Director Circe Olson Woessner said the stories all offer “lessons learned from growing up in war.”

The reception will be 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at the museum located at 546 Highway 333 (Old Route 66) in Tijeras.

There is no admission charge for either event.