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When Lech Sierpowski goes to the screening of “Thank You for Your Service” at the Montclair Film Festival Tuesday night, it will trigger some of the anger and despair he lives with every day.
He will leave it agitated; he will wonder why, again, the country he served didn’t see problems like his coming and, when faced with it, tried to solve it with prescription upon prescription of physical and mental painkillers. Sierpowski couldn’t wait until he turned 18, so he could go down to his hometown post office in Bloomfield and register for the Selective Service. Within a few months, he was in the Marine Corps.
This was 16 years ago, before the USS Cole, the terror attack of 9/11, and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I enlisted because of patriotism,” Sierpowski said Friday. “I enlisted because of pride and because I owed my country an obligation.”
Sierpowski, now 34, said this in the Montclair law office of Michael Pasquale, who runs the non-profit organization Officers of the Courts Corp. (OCC), which gives free legal services to injured military people and veterans seeking benefits due them for the sacrifices they’ve made.
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