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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 da...

Insurgensy. more troops on the streets means more danger. 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 tells us who the enemy was. >> soldiers from the u.s. army's bravo company, 216, including ethan mccord are on patrol in a run down neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning, the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base. and while the...

Together. >> ben and van say they videotaped the war to remember and to prove exactly what happened there. >> i think it helps because i think the media in the united states sort of sensors a lot of like real combat footage. >> we're receiving response. >> i think it goes a long way to tell the american people that this war that we're in isn't so black and white. going to war shouldn't be something that it's just taken so lightly, you know. >> during their time in afghanistan, ben, van, and phil each sustain significant significant injuries including ruptured eardrums and broken bones. they ea...

Film ng the men. >> i think the drive for me to go to these places is because 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, i'm telling my story through these pictures. and that's the great thing about being a cameraman. we have this amazing power with this thing we hold in our hand to record life. >> i don't like war. i don't like seeing war. i don't like going to war, but war happens. and i think it's important to see war up close as a society, to understand about our human nature. war has its own dyn...

They can follow that van anywhere. from a military point of view, it might have been better to follow the van and see where that led. >> urban combat is the most difficult type of combat any army will ever face. with that said, there are very clear criterions set up. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. that van should never have been engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, let me be very clear here. the presence of a weapon on the battlefield does not constitute a threat. it constitutes a weapon, and you've got to determine if the weapon...