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Ware’s new film about the Iraq war

Michael Ware was one of the hardest working reporters in Iraq.

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Michael Ware was one of the hardest working reporters in Iraq. Here is one of his comments about his new documentary on the war there:

It’s about trying to learn how to live the rest of our lives while dealing with this stuff, and carrying our wars, and carrying our dead, and carrying our living dead. Quite frankly, there was a point when I counted myself among the living dead. I don’t know how the veteran will respond to my film. I do know how some of the veterans in my film have responded, because I’ve reconnected with them, and I’ve been humbled by their reaction to the film. I have been brought to my knees and brought to tears by the way some of the soldiers in my film have responded. To me that means fucking everything.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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