I remember everything except hearing the blast.
It pretty much blew up right beneath me, and for some reason or another I never lost consciousness or went into shock. What was going through your mind when you got hit? Your “Alive Day” came pretty quickly after you arrived in Iraq. benefits front, when they too return home. His hope is that they don’t face the same hardships as he did, especially on the V.A. “My left leg was broken with compound fractures, my right leg was broken, my foot was crushed, my left arm was broken with compound fractures, and one of my bones got blown out of my arm.” Three years, two hospitals and 46 surgeries later, Schick is still fighting for his brothers-and-sisters-in-arms. “I can’t even remember the day I arrived, I just remember the day I got hit,” he says. “In our cases, it’s just begun.” Schick, a 24 year old machine gunner who served with the 1/23rd Marines, Bravo Company, met his alive day on September 20, 2004-just a month after he arrived in Iraq-when his Humvee ran over a pressurized anti-tank bomb while running a security patrol outside Al Asad. “The fight doesn’t stop when you get home,” Cpl. Premiering on September 9, Gandolfini’s enthralling doc is an intimate look into the harsh physical and emotional toll exacted on Iraq vets by their “Alive Day,” the day they barely escaped death on the battlefield. As Tony Soprano’s reign as the don of cable was coming to an oh-so-clever close, the Emmy-winning actor sat down with 10 severely wounded troops and listened to their stories for his first project as a producer Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. And still: unless you understand these statistics at a human level they’re just numbers in a string of news stories. troops have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and seven times as many have returned home wounded. The numbers are dizzying-nearly 4,000 U.S. Michael Slenske’s last Back Home From Iraq piece was an interview with Marine reservist Todd Bowers. Make your own Six-Word tee or choose among our favorites.īack Home with Jacob Schick from HBO’s Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq
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