At 18 for no apparent reason I joined the Army. I guess for a way out of my home town. Joined and not even six months later I found my self in a fox hole in Kandahar, Afghanistan (January 14th 2002 to July 15th 2002).
Served six months there before returning stateside for a hellish 7 month full out training cycle before being shipped back across the Atlantic to Kuwait were we staged for a nice long year in Iraq (February 28th, 2003 to January 16th, 2004).
I am out of the Army now, and have dove straight into the production of Dylan’s documentary Loose Change. Due to government obligations that I did not support in the first place, I was unable to dedicate as much of my time as I would have liked to.
As for the future, only life can tell. My life to date has been very interesting, despite the very short life summary. I could only guess where I will be down the road.
DYLAN AVERY - Director, Editor, Founder
In Dylan’s own words: In May 2002, after spending three months doing construction work on Vines, I had a half hour conversation with James Gandolfini at the opening party. To make a long, drawn out conversation short, James told me, “If you want to be a successful director, you have to have something to say to the world.”
It was that month that I began writing “Loose Change,” a fictional story about my friends and I discovering that September 11th was not a terrorist attack, but rather, an attack by their own government.
Upon researching for the movie, it became apparant that the subject matter may not have been entirely fiction. Over two years time, adding more and more information, the fictional movie evolved into what it is today; a documentary.
In May 2004, I moved down to Washington, DC, at the time when “Loose Change” was beginning to take shape. Bouncing from couch to couch, technically homeless, eventually landing a job and an apartment in Silver Spring, Maryland, the entire time I worked on the documentary with every spare moment and dollar to my name.
In January 2005, DJ Skooly moved into my apartment fresh out of Los Angeles, and donated a rich soundtrack and recording equipment which is responsible for “Loose Change”’s unique presentation.
In April 2005, after a financial boost from Phil Jayhan of Letsroll911.org, a 1,000 DVD pressing of the original Loose Change was released on the internet, mostly on a whim.
Approximately 200 pre-orders, from the course of the past two months, were hand-addressed and packaged by my girlfriend Jessica and I. Orders started to come in at anywhere from 1 to 5 a day, something which at the time was alarming in its own right.
Eventually, word spread, and the movie started collecting a grassroots fanbase. Whenever I wasn’t waiting tables at Red Lobster, Jessica and I were in the living room, addressing and stuffing envelopes, one by one. The people at the post office became curious as Jess and I put stamps on hundreds of individual orders at once, creating an assembly line inside the Post Office.
In June 2005, my best friend Korey departed from the United States Armed Forces to come support the cause, and by July 2005, after a trip to California to visit KPFK 90.7 FM and Sofia Shafquat, it was apparant that Loose Change had taken on a life of its own.
The rest, as they say, is history.
http://www.loosechange911.com/
In Korey’s own words: Born and raised for the first 18 years of my life, in Oneonta NY. During that time I attended Greater Plains Elementary, Oneonta Middle School, and Oneonta High School. I was a normal kid, played sports, took vacations, worked for my father on the weekends.
Korey Rowe, at 22, is a combat veteran of both the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns in the so-called War On Terror. Returning to civilian life, Korey discovered the hidden story behind the impetus to war and the disturbing truths about what really happened on September 11th, 2001. He has since then devoted all of his energies into helping his childhood friend Dylan Avery promote and distribute Loose Change 2nd Edition and is currently working on a follow up project. Left to right in the photo: Korey Rowe, Jason Bermas, and Dylan Avery.
I am out of the Army now, and have dove straight into the production of Dylan’s documentary Loose Change.
