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Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek Directors: Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue Cast: Tomas Young, Cathy Smith Vietnam's vets who spoke out about the war were labeled traitors and were most likely subjected to CIA inquiry. Their stories weren't represented adequately in popular media until it was all deemed too late to help. The war in Iraq, however, from the first shots into Baghdad to the death tolls tallied online at icasualties.org, has been a war fought very much in and with the "magic" that is the modern media. The sentiment to "Support Our Troops" has never wavered, but the expanded slogan "Support Our Troops. Bring Them Home" rings louder each and every day the conflict continues, and louder still after experiencing Body of War - the story of Tomas Young, directed by Ellen Spiro and the oft-impersonated (but never duplicated) talk show host Phil Donahue.

January 25,1988 I fell from a moving UPS van I had compression and burst fractures from my sacrum to t10. Went through 13 different surgeries to get a good fix of hard ware on my spine over a 4 year period of time. I kept tearing the hard ware lose at the time of my injury I was going to school at Georgia Tech playing football I stood 6'4" 265 lbs, just married and had a son on the way. I started back to school at Ga State and finialy got a job in August of 1994 with Canon USA. Thought I had it made then but I was wrong the department I was in moved to the D.C. area and being the new kid on the block I did not get to go. So on my lunch break one day I noticed a medical supply company across the street from Canon.

Activist and advocate Mark Loeffler discusses losing his government job and what he had to do establish the programs necessary to secure his independence.

Zen Garcia will discuss this little known about Section 8 program which allows recipients to use their rental assistance to pay on a mortgage

I will be coming to you every Wednesday night with a new show and topic concerning disability and disability issues. Tonight we focus on veteran's issues and how to establish VA benefits.

Zen Garcia has been collaborating with quadriplegic Coach Rich Anway about a forthcoming video project in which cameras followed him throughout a winning season. Special guest Charlie Daniels will join us for interview.