"Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" . . . a James Gandolfini production . . . [View All]

reviewed by Linda Stasi of the New York Post . . .

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09072007/tv/coming_home.htm?page=0



If "The Sopranos" finale was the most memorable TV finale of, well, all time, then James Gandolfini's HBO documentary Sunday night, "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq," is definitely the most memorable and important TV event of the year.

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The documentary, produced by Gandolfini (who is also the lone interviewer), tells the first-person stories of 10 soldiers who were severely wounded in Iraq. The whole thing was shot by famed war photographer Jon Albert on a bare New York stage, which gives it an other worldly quality.

Right off, we learn that for the first time in American history, 90 percent of all wounded soldiers survive their injuries. Soldiers who would have died of their wounds within hours are now saved by new medical techniques - only to come home months later suffering severe brain damage or without eyes, arms or legs. Some without any limbs at all.

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"Alive Day" should be required viewing for every elected official before every vote that involves the war whether it's for funding for body armor or for troop withdrawal.

They - and we - need to see how much war really costs.

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"Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq"
Sunday night at 10:30 on HBO