Free Viewing: Warrior Champions

A powerful documentary is coming to PAC's Performing Arts Theater, Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m.

"Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing" is an inspiring and emotional story of four severely wounded military personnel as they fight to turn injuries of war into Paralympic dreams.

The event is free and open to the public.

The movie, a Renaud Brothers film, follows four Iraq veterans who lost limbs or suffered paralysis while fighting for their country as they pursue their dream to compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The screening is being held to complement the U.S. Paralympics Spring Swimming Nationals 2010 Spring Can-Am in the PAC Natatorium, March 25-27.

"Warrior Champions" follows Melissa Stockwell, the first female American Soldier in history to lose a limb in active combat; Carlos Leon (USMC); Kortney Clemons, a combat medic; and Scott Winkler, a U.S. Army veteran.

According to promotional materials promoting the film, "Warrior Champions" is not a sad tale of the tragedy of war, but rather an uplifting testament to the human spirit that challenges every notion of what it means to have a physical disability.