Last night my boyfriend and I watched the movie "Machine Gun Preacher" starring Gerald Butler. The movie is actually based on a true story of Sam Childers. Childers once a gang banger biker drug addict turned preacher started to help defend the children of Africa that were affected by the civil war. This movie was very powerful because the war in Africa is not something that is taught in schools. The most common things that people hear about Africa is how poverty stricken and disease filled it is. But people rarely hear about the destruction of families over there. And many do not understand that the violence is perpetrated by children who are kidnapped and have seen their families murdered. They are purely acting on survival instincts.
If you would like to watch this movie it is on Netflix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Preacher
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