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- Bill Anderson
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- "Part 8: David Swan"
- Summary: Eight National Guard soldiers who spent nearly a year in Iraq describe their experiences at war.
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Review of Part 8: David Swan
Bill Anderson
Posted on July 21, 2006 at 10:51 AM
This short piece was well edited. It detailed some of the grim realities of war, from the act of killing to being injured physically and/or emotionally.
I question why the description of the houses which were searched was included including the reference to Mercedes autos.
I liked the simplicity of this and the narrator just spoke as oppossed to speaking into a microphone.
I gave it a low rating only because we are getting a steady diet of these first-person stories on the news magazines. That's no fault of the producer and not a reflection on the producer's work.
That said, I would use them if the voices were from my community.