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Small black and white video of a much larger issue. >> following the apache incident, specialist mccord served for eight more months in iraq before he was wounded in this ied explosion. >> i learned lou to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldnt live without was my own humanity. i couldnt self-justify what i was doing in iraq any more. what we as a nation were doing in iraq. i had to refigure out who i was as a human being and what...

Access to the apache on board cameras and voice communications. all their requests are denied. the government makes no further comment on the incident until three years later when wikileaks, which had received a leaked copy of the classified video, releases it under the provocative title "collateral murder." >> the video is important in a number of ways. one of them is better scrutiny of how pilots behave when they fire on people. >> they released it in a couple different forms. they released it...

Didnt we just get into the humvee and hide there? and neither one of us couldnt remember why we didnt. but had we got into the humvee, we wouldnt have then got the pictures. >> we tried to cross an open stretch of road, we came under attack. theres incoming fire right now. >> fortunately, the crew and the soldiers make it back to the command post, but as they return, the men get the news they had been dreading, one member of their company sergeant john penich, was killed in the incident. >> they...

In a sense everybody is right but everybody is so wrong at the same time. what youre looking at is a small black and white video of a much larger issue. >> following the apache incident, specialist mccord served for eight more months in iraq before he was wounded in this ied explosion. >> i learned lou to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldnt live without was my own humanity. i couldnt self-justify what i was doing in iraq any mo...

>> ethan mccord has just dropped off his children at school when he gets the news. >> came home. sat down on the couch with my cup of coffee. turned on the news. its insane. because the very first image i saw was of me running across the screen carrying a child. i was angry just by the initial shock of it being on the tv. but also a little relieved. i wanted people to know what was happening in iraq. >> the same day the video hits the air, the u.s. military releases the report it conducted in th...