Veteran Tomas Young - Body of War

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.