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Videotaped the war to remember and to prove exactly what happened there. >> brownies hit. brownies hit. >> i think it helps because i think the media in the united states sort of censors a lot of like real combat footage. >> were receiving small arms fire. >> i think it goes a long way to tell the american people that this war that were in isnt so black and white. going to war shouldnt be something that is just taken so lightly. you know. >> during their time in afghanistan, van, ben and phil ea...

And attacks against u.s. forces are increasing daily. >> this is at the apex of iraq going to hell. the surge has just started. and the war went from incredibly violent to over the top violent, especially in baghdad. >> we would get blown up regularly. snipers shooting at us. never really tell who the enemy was. >> soldiers from the u.s. armys bravo company 216, including specialist ethan mccord, are on patrol in a rundown neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning the battalion comes u...

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...

Nobody else is going, or very few people are going. that i have a camera and that i can record it as well is only a bonus. and therefore, im telling my story through these pictures. thats the great thing about being a cameraman. we have this amazing power with this thing that we hold in our hand to record life. >> i dont like war. i dont like seeing war. i dont like going to war. but war happens. and i think its important to see war up close as a society, to understand about our human nature. wa...

>> emmett, he missed rolling around with trevor. theyre best friends. hi, emmett. >> on the day her husband returns from war, whitney decides to videotape trevors homecoming from emmetts point of view. >> emmett, come on. hey, emmett. do you not recognize me? he clearly smelled me coming in through the door. so i had no idea his reaction was going to be like that. it made it special for us. >> he was just like trying to look him in the eyes. i think he remembers you. >> how you doing? >> it was ...

War of hearts and minds. clearly if youre killing civilians in the process of trying to secure a city, youre not really winning that battle. coming up -- soldiers returning from war. some of the most memorable homecomings weve ever seen.

Air, they can follow that van anywhere. in fact, it might have been from strictly military point of view, it might have been better to follow the van and see where that led. >> urban combat is probably the most severe, most difficult type of combat that any army will ever face. with that said, there are very clear criterion set up for the use of deadly force. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. ive seen the video several times. that vn should have never b...

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