Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war
سيباستيان جانغر: لماذا يفتقد قدماء المحاربين الحرب
The author of "The Perfect Storm" and the director of the documentaries "Restrepo" and "Korengal," Sebastian Junger tells non-fiction stories with grit and emotion. Full bio
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ما زالوا يفتقدونها.
أن نوقف الحرب،
doesn't want to know about it.
ولا أن يعرف عنها.
بأشخاص محبين للسلام
لحوالي 20 سنة، كما ذكرت،
Battle Company in that valley,
شركة باتل في ذلك الوادي.
months into the deployment.
and at the end of the month,
with the outside world up there.
combat in a couple of weeks,
streets of your hometown
كان على وشك أن يقتل،
and I didn't know what it was.
ولم أكن أعرف ما هو.
the sound catches up to it.
بحوالي نصف الثانية.
دو - دو - دو - دو - دو.
from the side of my head.
لأنني بالتأكيد فكرت،
problems when they got home.
guy named Brendan O'Byrne.
يدعى بريندان أوبارني.
أن يطلق عليه النار
have to answer that question.
يجب أن نجيب على هذا السؤال.
أكثر من حبي لنفسي."
برصاصة في رأسه
التي بكى فيها في أفغانستان،
كان هناك الكثير من القصص
أي شخص يعرفونه لهم
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sebastian Junger - Journalist and documentarianThe author of "The Perfect Storm" and the director of the documentaries "Restrepo" and "Korengal," Sebastian Junger tells non-fiction stories with grit and emotion.
Why you should listen
Sebastian Junger thundered onto the media landscape with his non-fiction book, The Perfect Storm. A correspondent for Vanity Fair and ABC News, Junger has covered stories all across the globe, igniting a new interest in non-fiction. One of his main interests: war.
From 2007 to 2008, Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. They spent intensive time with the soldiers at the Restrepo outpost in the Korengal Valley, which saw more combat than any other part of Afghanistan. The experience became Junger's book WAR, and the documentary "Restrepo," which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2011.
Junger and Hetherington planned to make a second documentary on the topic, "Korengal," meant to help soldiers and civilians alike understand the fear, courage and complexity involved in combat. It's a project that Junger decided to carry on after Hetherington was killed in Libya while covering the civil war there. Junger self-financed and released the film.
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