Months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I began filming the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (known as the Gunners) in Baghdad.
They told the story of the war as only they could: They played guitar, spat out rhymes and played to the camera.
But behind all their bravado and posturing, they were just kids who desperately wanted the world to understand the war through their eyes.
In the last two months of 2003, the Gunners lost three men to I.E.D.
In the short documentary above, the veterans grapple with a past that still reverberates powerfully through their lives.
Persons:
Donald Rumsfeld, “, ”
Organizations:
Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, Gunners
Locations:
United States, Iraq, Army’s, Baghdad