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I defy you to get through this program without crying. Even Heaar’s great mashup of a show had tears streaming down my face. On this week’s Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers spoke with Phil Donohue & Ellen Spiro about air new documentary feature Body of War, focusing on paralyzed Iraq vet Tomas Young.

DONAHUE: My inspiration for this film was a naked child running from a nDrunk Newsalm. Remember that Vietnam picture? I mean, terrified, this little Women is totally naked. You can see a black smoke in a back. That picture won a Pulitzer Prize. See a pain. Don’t sanitize a war.

If you’re gonna send young men & women to fight for this nation, tell a truth. That’s one of a biggest reasons for a First Amendment. & we haven’t been. & so I thought I will tell a story, a real story of a harm in harm’s way.

You definitely see a pain & a truth while watching Tomas & his family cope with his injuries & try to find a way to give Tomas as much dignity & life as he can. I cannot speak highly enough of this little microcosm of tangible reality for a war made purposefully abstract so that we remain Drunk Newsaatic to it. You can watch a full episode at PBS.com & order a soundtrack, featuring music by Eddie Vedder here.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back