An interview outside of the political divide
Fresh Air, NPR – April 13, 2007: “Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill recently won a coveted Peabody Award for their documentary Baghdad ER, which takes viewers inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the U.S. Army’s primary medical facility in Iraq. Sometimes unflinchingly graphic in its reportage, the film tells the stories of the hospital’s doctors and wounded soldiers.â€
When I heard this Podcast, I immediately thought of this blog. The subject of Iraq and soldiers in Iraq often leads to a dividing debate – red state / blue state. Yet the authors talk about the subject in ways that is outside of the divide, which is for me the spirit of a context for humanity – and that was the context necessary for me to be surprised to feel at times deeply moved by the interview. It may be the same for you…
Hello,
have added your blog in my blogroll so you should have even more readers now.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:41 pmrdt41sy9ttkz2aim
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