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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 how to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldn't live without was my own humanity. i couldn't self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymore. what we as a nation were doing in iraq. i had to refigure out who i was as a human being and what i wanted out of life. and what legacy i was going to leave for my children. i struggle every day, ...

It also specifically requests 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 both in a long form, then a more concise form where the high points, ...

And neither one of us could remember why we didn't. but had we got into the humvee, we wouldn't have then got the pictures. >> we tried to cross an open stretch of road, we came under attack. there's 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 were devastated. they were absolutely devastated. and i knew what it was going to mean for these soldiers, because i knew the bonds that they had a...

What you're 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 how to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldn't live without was my own humanity. i couldn't self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymore. what we as a nation were doing in iraq. i had to refigure out who i was as a human being and what i wanted out of life. and what legacy i was going to leave for my chil...

>> came home. sat down on the couch with my cup of coffee. turned on the news. it's 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 the weeks following the 2007 incident. >> the report was heavily redacted. the report basically said we investigated the incident and our guys behaved appropriately. there was no violat...