Postea Bellum- latin: "Post War"
Our Mission
The project is called "Postea Bellum" and it is multifaceted. It will focus on 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts and the guys that we lost- but also the "after" part of war. How people continued on and transitioned to the rest of their lives and did not let the war basically eat away at them. Lots of our guys from Afghanistan and Iraq lived through the war and came back, but ended up losing the fight against suicide. So, this film and associated future films are a digital reunion of sorts that will hopefully give inspiration to guys and girls still struggling with issues like PTSD and transitioning back to the civilian world.
1/8 is a very unique unit. There was the Beirut deployment and bomb attack. The battalion is nicknamed the “Beirut Battalion” and the unit still to this day is deeply stocked with lore about the battalion’s history. 1/8 fought in Fallujah and countless other places in Iraq and deployed twice to Afghanistan and then a third time in 2021 during the withdrawal and eventual evacuation at the airport. 1/8 also took part in our nations conflicts going all the way back to its formation during World War I.
In poetic terms- 1/8 bookends the war on terror in a way. You could say that the active war against Islamic terror organizations started with Beirut in 1983 and the airport pull out in 2021 was the end of a chapter in that global war. That is about 38 years of a battalion made up of thousands of men and now women as well. It is a unit that has a lot of stories about the war and we are trying to save and chronicle those stories.
Our Team
Our team is made up of veterans of 1st Battalion, 8th Marines from the War in Afghanistan, attachments that worked with 1/8 on deployments, our friends and the families of the fallen.
The Future
We hope to continue growing the digital archive of pictures, videos and stories about the war and create more films about the battalion, subordinate units, people, events and issues related to 1st Battalion, 8th Marines .