Description from A&E’s website:
Featuring candid interviews and never-before-seen video, we tell the story of the hardest hit combat unit of the Iraq war. Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, a reserve unit out of Columbus, Ohio was deployed to Iraq from February 28-September 30, 2005. This two-hour documentary captures significant moments from their tour of duty, including dramatic combat missions. Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company provides an unprecedented and harrowing window into the harsh reality of war.
Upcoming Airings:
- Thursday, May 25 @ 9pm/8C
- Friday, May 26 @ 1am/12C
- Saturday, May 27 @ 8pm/7C
- Sunday, May 28 @ 12am/11C
Excerpt about the A&E program from today’s Dispatch
Near the end of a new documentary on Columbus’ Lima Company, Lance Cpl. Trevor Smith talks of the Marine unit’s fame:
“I just feel like we got all this attention because a lot of us were killed… I don’t appreciate this stuff. I just want people to know about my friends.”
Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company, which airs Thursday night and other days on A&E, helps us to know them.
The reservists gave the film’s producers more than 15 hours of video that they took in Iraq. This was private footage shot during the company’s seven month deployment last year.
No one seems to have felt restrained in front of their own cameras, said Michael Epstein, the film’s producer and director.
We see a Marine licking the bottom of another’s foot for a $5 bet; Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer playing Puff the Magic Dragon on guitar in the barracks; Lance Cpl. Nicholas Bloem trying to eat 15 little pizzas in 20 minutes.
We also see a nighttime firefight; Marines assaulting the building where Dyer was killed; the burning amphibious vehicle that held the bodies of Bloem and 10 other Marines. [read the rest of the article]
At the time of this posting we have lost 2,457 soldiers and an estimated 40,000 Iraqi civilians in this illegal war and occupation.
And again I ask, for what?
Even though Iraq and 9/11 have absolutely nothing to do with eachother aside from The Project for a New American Century, some Americans still believe there’s a connection and subsequent justification for war. Going along with this misconception, I say this: we lost 2,986 people on September 11th; casualties from the occupation of Iraq will inevitably surpass that number. Then how easy will it be for the remaining supporters of this war to use “Remember 9/11?” as justification?
How in the hell can people still support this war and the administration responsible for it?
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