The Today Show just interviewed Phil Donohue and Tomas Young re Body Of War

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Body of War is a documentary of a young man who volunteered fpr the army to fight in Afghanistan to fight "the people who caused 9/11" and was sent to Iraq instead. In his first day of service in Iraq he was paralyzed from the waist down. Body of War chronicles Tomas Young's living day by day as a paraplegic and his anti-war efforts.

The interview on Today was actually very good and so moving. They had a clip from the film of Tomas at an anti-war rally where Gold Star Mothers for Peace started to touch him as a connection to their fallen loved ones.

http://www.bodyofwar.com/

[Wind Dancer]

1. He's an amazing young man.

I'm going to see the film this Saturday with a lots of tissues........... what a brave and courageous family.

There was also a great interview on Bill Moyers with Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro recently.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03212008/watch.html

This war must end NOW.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Just the clip of him with the Gold Star Mothers had me in tears. Tissues will be a must.

Thanks for the link to the interview with Moyers.

[Wind Dancer]

4. You're welcome! It will be extremely emotional............

There's also a beautiful anti-war song written by Eddie Vedder for Tomas ......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x109873

I have a hard time even watching the video...... :cry:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. And there are many more touching scenes

My favorite scene is when he goes to see Senator Byrd. :cry:

[chat_noir]

2. Phil Donahue unveils documentary on wounded GI (Today Show)

Film follows path of a ‘warrior turned anti-warrior,’ says ex-talk show host

In 2004, Phil Donahue stopped to visit his old friend Ralph Nader on a visit to Washington, D.C. Nader asked the talk show legend to come along on a visit to a wounded soldier in Walter Reed Hospital. So moved was Donahue by his meeting with Tomas Young, he decided to film a documentary about the young man’s journey from warrior to paralyzed veteran to spokesman and activist against America’s presence in Iraq.

Four years later, the film, “Body of War,” is debuting to reviews that make liberal use of such adjectives as “powerful,” “riveting,” “unforgettable” and “wrenching.” Richard Corliss of Time magazine called it, “A superb documentary ... almost unbearably moving.”

“The first time I saw him will be with me forever — paralyzed from the chest down — he had that morphine look, droopy eyed, sallow, sunken, lifeless,” Donahue writes in the director’s notes to his movie. “Body of War is a film provoked by my own questions as I stood on my functional legs at his bedside.”

snip

While recuperating in Walter Reed, Young, who is from Kansas City, further questioned the war, asking himself why his country was in Iraq if there were no weapons of mass destruction and what Iraq had to do with 9/11 and al-Qaida. He knew others were being killed and sent home with shattered bodies and wondered why.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23884161/

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Don't miss this film!!!

I have seen it 3 times now and cry harder every time.

Tomas is our hometown hero. :)

[PA Democrat]

7. Thanks for posting. I was wondering what Phil Donahue has been up to.

I'm still angry at the people at NBC who had his top rated show canned because it was ant-war.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Phil was fired while having at that time, the highest rated show on MSNBC and it was

so damned evident that he fired because he wasn't cheerleading "Shrub's Folly".

I have loved Phil Donahue since the first time I watched him.