THE WALL STREET JOURNAL : 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Has Recruited Unlikely Audience: U.S. Soldiers

Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Mike's Latest News: "FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- John Atkins isn't the sort of person one would expect to find crowding into the Cameo Theatre here to see Michael Moore's ' Fahrenheit 9/11.'
The 26-year-old U.S. Army machine gunner from Fort Bragg voted for President Bush. A graduate of the University of Colorado-Boulder, he enlisted last year 'to serve my country' and expects to go to Iraq later in 2004.
'That was pretty thought-provoking,' Spec. Atkins says after a showing of Mr. Moore's documentary. 'I guess I'm a little disillusioned. I've got a lot more questions than answers now.'
Every day since 'Fahrenheit 9/11' opened here more than two weeks ago, military men and women have swarmed to the 125-seat Cameo. 'Everyone thinks the military is so staunchly Republican,' says Staff Sgt. Brandon Leetch, a military-intelligence specialist who spent time in Afghanistan. 'What this shows,' he says, looking around the theater before the movie, 'is that we're not all the same.'
Although a nearby suburban multiplex has started screening 'Fahrenheit 9/11 ,' too, on two screens -- meaning Fayetteville residents have their pick of 10 shows a day -- most of the tens of thousands of troops living in the area probably won't see the film. But soldiers and their families make up well over half of each audience at the Cameo, cinema owner Nasim Keunzel estimates. "


By SHAILAGH MURRAY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL