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Out of world war i. just where i am here in florida last night at dinner asking people, do you know who tomorrow is and most americans don't know. i really think that every veteran fears being forgotten. this was a chance yesterday for the president to high like not only the sacrifice of american veterans but our role in the war itself, in world war i and our role as leaders in the world. he missed that opportunity that americans made to end the great war, which was ironically incredibly brutal in trenches with chemical weapons. millions and millions of people died, many of does. for him to du...

All of its her richl and its horror. and i thought, you know, 15 years on let's go back tow that story if we want to understand where we are now in the longest war in american history, let's look at the origin of that, the first foot soldiers of the war on terror. and what's striking is how, i think, today it's easy to have kind of a glib attitude about war. we hear lots of talk about, you know, war is -- you know, war takes a heavy toll on those who fight it and their families. and that's really what i wanted to get into in this film, and the emotional impact of it. not to say that wars aren'...

Were 20,000 troops that came in to kind of stabilize the situation and then, you know, years to come we had up to 100,000 troops there. and i think, you know, there's just something very different when you have that number, sort of so-called big army come in where it can be perceived by the locals that maybe these people are here as occupiers, even those who might support the objective as opposed to small groups of guys who inevitably have to work with the local forces on the ground because they just don't have the manpower to be overwhelming. so i think there's that question of perception. >>...

And what's striking is how, i think, today it's easy to have kind of a glib attitude about war. we hear lots of talk about, you know, war is -- you know, war takes a heavy toll on those who fight it and their families. and that's really what i wanted to get into in this film, and the emotional impact of it. not to say that wars aren't necessary because sometimes they are and nobody -- these guys did what they did willingly and they're very proud of it. now, i mean, nobody is more anti-war in the broadest sense than a soldier who has lived through it and their families, even though they're very...

Objective, as opposed to small groups of guys who inevitably have to work with local forces on the ground shss because they don't have the manpower to be overwhelming. so i think there's that question of perception. >> yeah. you know, you can tell, again, that it's very personal for these men. how did these missions change them and their families? what toll did it take on them? >> you know, i first met these guys in 2002 on another assignment, so right after they had come back from afghanistan. and even then their stories hit me as really iconic stories of the nature of war itself, with all of...