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December 16, 2004
The rocket's red gleaming. . .
Gunner Palace is finally finished and will premier in February, with a wider opening in March.Tucker spent a total of two months between September 2003 and April 2004 living with the unit at what soldiers call �Odai�s Love Shack,� a partially bombed-out palace on the Euphrates River where Saddam Hussein�s son, Odai, brought paramours for trysts. The regiment set up headquarters at the palace complex, which they nicknamed �Gunnerland,� while patrolling Al-Adhamiya, one of the most volatile sections of Baghdad. Tucker accompanied soldiers on countless missions and simply hung out with the troops. He said that left him with a sympathetic view of his soldiers that strongly runs counter to an image colored by soldiers� abuses of Iraqi captives at Abu Ghraib prison.The trailer now on the official site is pretty standard fare. You want to see this one, which was on the site while the film was being made.. . . It is, said Tucker, art out of pain. It was painful getting to know and respect soldiers and officers such as Sgt. Maj. Eric F. Cooke and 1st Lt. Ben Colgan before they died in separate attacks, he said. After that, he said, he couldn�t make �something rah-rah.� But neither could he make a film disrespectful of soldiers. Tucker said: �I most like that it shows them being them.�
Hat tip to NYC Spirit of America organizer Sean.
Judith | 12/16/04 at 08:38 PM | Categories: - Iraq
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