Summary
On June 7, the war in Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam -- along with World War II and the Civil War -- as the longest-running war in U.S. history. Yet unlike those earlier wars, the stories of the soldiers who fight in the mountains of Central Asia remain largely unknown to most Americans, despite Afghanistan being
a stronghold of the Taliban and the possible hiding place of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks that ushered in the "war on terror."See the full content of this document
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Valley of the Shadow of Death
That might change with the release of Restrepo: One Platoon, One Year, One Valley, a film that scraps all the conventions of the genre -- commanding-officer interviews, geopolitical debates, etc. - - to launch the viewer between sandbags and spent shells into a remote military outpost called "Restrepo," named in honor of Pfc. Juan Restrepo, a charismatic medic who was killed early dur...
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