Sunday, January 24, 2010

'Luck Trumps Death'


On Friday Wally and I watched The Hurt Locker, maybe the greatest movie to date about the War in Iraq and one of my Top 3 movies of 2009.

If you've seen the movie, check out these articles in today's NYT -- here and here - that explore the real life soldiers who work defusing homemade bombs that the military refers to as improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.'s. Thankfully, this front-page story of a solder who steps on an I.E.D. doesn't end in a bang.

1 comment:

tennis said...

I saw this reviewed on the Rachel Madow Show (TRMS) and it looks great. Intense, but great. Interesting reviews...