Even if you’re not a Veteran, on active duty or part of the military family. I highly recommend this TV series for all Veterans and members of the military family. Ultimately I respect the vision of what The Long Road Home is hoping to accomplish because that is what Veterans and their families really need: to be heard, seen and to heal so that they may readjust back to everyday life and recover from the past. Thus, any safe place of healing is highly commendable and needed. Even if the Veterans are most affected of all. It hurts the Veterans and their families to see loved ones struggling. I’ve seen the affects of PTSD and trauma. As a member of the military family, this was an intense but heartfelt episode for me because I’ve experienced and seen what the military and wartimes can do to a person, good and bad. For me, even though I never served in the military, it was hard to ignore my personal feelings at a Press event like this being a military brat myself that grew up with nearly all Veterans and men of the military: Air Force, Army, Marines, Green Berets and so on. I respected his honesty and bravery to retell this story and to heal from it. ArmyĪt the end of the screening, I was able to ask Eric Bourquin a question and it was definitely an intense moment for me. For Bourquin, who worked as a production consultant for the show, the fabricated town gave him tangible closure”. “But I was so fortunate that I was able to do that and walk through it’. The Army assisted the film crew at Fort Hood, where producers claimed they built the largest working film set in North America on a 12-acre site. More than 80 buildings were erected at the Elijah urban training site at Fort Hood, Texas, where the division is headquartered, to resemble homes and streets in Sadr City. ‘ There’s no way I could just take a stroll through memory lane if i wanted to,” he said after a panel discussion about the show at the Defense Information School. “While on the set he and other 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers endured in Iraq, Eric Bourquin managed to get the emotional healing he had sought for years. Army that helped Alanne in the production process, as well as attend the Q&A in Austin, is Eric Bourquin. I was also impressed by how the set is so accurate in detail that even the military personnel that helped advise Mikko Alanne on set described it to be almost a mirror reflection of Baghdad. Viewers are watching the episodes with ease, without confusions as to the different times with different characters, past and present. Alanne is also a master of flashbacks and retrospective storytelling. Right when you want to look away from Baghdad, the series keeps you hooked with light-hearted moments back in Texas. Mikko Alanne does a fantastic job of intertwining beauty and humor into a darker story. I sat there watching the screening of The Long Road Home on a Sunday evening, and I felt a wild and extensive mixture of emotions. The series gives a voice and a proper acknowledgment to the Veterans that have served and their families that supported them. The Long Road Home tells a story of the ultimate sacrifice made at war. Tomas Young and Jeremy Sisto as Staff Sgt. Denomy’s wife, Gina Sarah Wayne Callies as LeAnn Volesky, wife of Lt. Gary Volesky Emmy-nominated actor Jason Ritter as Capt. Based on Martha Raddatz’s best-selling book, The Long Road Home chronicles their heroic fight for survival, as well as their families’ agonizing wait on the home front back in Texas. The cast includes two-time Emmy-nominated actor Michael Kelly as Lt. “On April 4, 2004, the First Cavalry Division from Fort Hood was ferociously ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad-a day that later came to be known as Black Sunday. The creator and showrunner of this TV show is screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Mikko Alanne. The Long Road Home is presently the biggest active set in the U.S., built on Fort Hood Army Base. The first episode premiered on November 7, 2017, and the show is now featured worldwide in over 171 locations and 45 languages each week on Tuesdays via National Geographic Channel. Nat Geo and the Texas Film Commission delivered a sneak peek into this Texas-filmed series based on Martha Raddatz’s bestselling novel The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family. Recently in honor of Veteran’s Day, I attended a screening in Texas for a National Geographic Channel military series on TV called The Long Road Home. Imagery provided by National Geographic/ATX Television Festival.
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