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Videotaped the war to remember and to prove exactly what happened there. >> brownie's hit. brownie's hit. >> i think it helps because i think the media in the united states sort of censors a lot of like real combat footage. >> we're receiving small arms fire. >> 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 is just taken so lightly. you know. >> during their time in afghanistan, van, ben and phil each sustained significant physical injuries including concussions, ruptured ear drums and broke...

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. army's bravo company 216, including specialist ethan mccord, are on patrol in a rundown neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base. while the soldiers patrol, they hear sporadic gunfire. >> t...

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 couldn't live without was my own humanity. i couldn't 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 i wanted out of life. and what legacy i was going to leave for my children. i struggle every day,...

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. that's 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 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 dynamic that is also fascinating, is also grow tech and is also beautiful in som...

>> emmett, he missed rolling around with trevor. they're best friends. hi, emmett. >> on the day her husband returns from war, whitney decides to videotape trevor's homecoming from emmett's 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 really fun to see emmett greeting trevor coming back. and it was really cute. i'm glad that i cau...