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This sounds like a fascinating documentary -- Brats: Our Journey Home, a story of the unique experience of children who grew up on U.S. Military bases across the world. Kris Krisofferson is the narrator, as well as contributing songs to the soundtrack (he was an Army brat), and there are interviews with psychiatrists, scholars and authors as well as former military brats who view themselves almost as a "lost American tribe" due to their shared personality quirks, expansive world-views and social dissimilarities from the larger American culture which surrounds them.

Betty J. Nichols, a former educator for the Department of Defense, succinctly summarizes the film's core message: "This documentary celebrating the life of America's "third culture kids" is a story with universal dimensions. It is at once a comprehensive and uplifting montage of American children who became unwitting ambassadors of our culture as they accompanied their military parents around the world and matured into global citizens. Now their story is being told by the famous and the reflective ones who still feel the impact of those cherished years. Its producer/director, Donna Musil, has added a significant chapter to American history. As an educator in Japan and Germany for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools for several decades, I worked and learned with these military brats, a fascinating and unique breed."

Military brats educated in Department of Defense schools lead the nation in educational test scores, no matter the age, race, gender or family income bracket; they were introduced to an integrated educational structure decades before the civilian population moved towards integration in the 60's; and their world-view is often far more developed than others of their own age, accompanied by an understanding of country, duty and loss that the U.S. civilian population is often hard pressed to grasp, leaving members of this "tribe" feeling socially isolated from their civilian peers. This social difference, the psychological separation from mainstream civilian culture which serves to create a tight bond among the brats themselves, is what BRATS attempts to both explore and explain, while also detailing what it's like to grow up as a de facto cultural ambassador for your country.

This documentary has been in the works since 1999, and it looks like 2006 is when it finally hits all the film festivals. They're taking orders for the DVD on their website.