Three National Guard soldiers from New Hampshire were given their own cameras and asked to record a year Iraq. The more than 800 hours of video they recorded resulted in a film,"The War Tapes," which took the documentary feature award at the recent New York Tribeca Film Festival.
Specialist Mike Moriarty was one of the three soldiers — he signed up after 9/11. "That was like somebody hitting my house," Moriarty said to the camera. "I had to do something about it."
But Sgt. Zack Bazzi — born in Lebanon, fluent in Arabic — is dubious about America's intentions in Iraq.
"[Expletive] the oil man, [expletive] it," he said. "It's not worth it. I'll even drive a Honda Insight."
And Sgt. Steve Pink was a dedicated keeper of eloquently wrenching diaries.
"I looked down at his hand dangling from the exposed bone that used to be his elbow," he said, "like a safety-clipped mitten dangling from his winter coat."
ABC News: A Provocative Look at Soldiers' Lives in Iraq
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