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Viewer Debbie: Maybe the next movie could be about how we Americans can contribute to wounded soldiers and their families with actual stories.

Harris: There is Wounded Warrior Battalion, where the injured are with a command and health care professionals and are military just wounded and then there is wounded warrior project and they do wonderful things also just want to clarify the difference. Viewer Annelise: This scene does so much to show how Afghans really feel about the US military presence in their communities.

Harris: This is important. This was the 2nd week into deployment. By the end before I was wounded the villagers had moved back into there homes, we had a bubble basically around them that we could protect them from anything outside it, but by the end they thanked us and meet in large groups to thank us…….. They were no longer being drug out of their homes in the middle of the night and beaten or killed.

Harris — how has your relationship grown with troops you served in combat with? Are they still in your life? Harris: Some of them are still best friends and have been through my whole recovery process. Viewer Debbie: Ashley: Is there a support group for the wives of wounded soldiers?

Ashley: Yes there are outings, meetings, support groups, counseling available, all through the wounded warrior battalion. Harris: I am doing really good. We can visit them and sit and talk with them while they recover and let them know someone cares, America cares and is thankful.

Viewer Debbie: Does the military offer you any counseling to deal with all these issues you face? Harris: The military does, but this is new in our understanding of what happens to a person or your mind when going through things of this nature. Harris: I have two. This one is a princess and goes with me everywhere and her name is Vera after Vera Bradley and she is a pitbull with lupus.

Viewer 71BR: Good dogs man…. Hope they help ease the pain some. Harris: It would have been completely different without them. Viewer Joe: When a video journalist like Danfung is with you, is someone assigned to cover them, or are they on their own?

Harris: Well it is my responsibility to keep them safe. I put them with someone but they do this at great risk and with no weapon. Danfung captured the frontline of the war by being with us. He often ran past me or was between me and the enemy so that he could get the video and I think that is special. What do you see the next phase of your life looking like? What do you want to do? I am transitioning or medically retiring soon. I also plan and hope I get to stay involved with Veterans issues and would love to be an advocate for them and help in many different areas.

So I wanna look at that and see where it goes. Harris: NO not really, the scenes at home are personal but we are comfortable by now with sharing it because we believe in doing so it may help others. We did not get paid for film, or act, it is just simply what was going on when the camera was on. Viewer 5ULQ: Nathan, how is your recovery coming?

Interested to hear both of your perspectives on that one… Sgt. Viewer How are you now? The Marine company in Helmand Sgt. Tags afghanistan ashley harris danfung dennis live chat making of nathan harris wounded warrior. A new wave of films documenting the war in Afghanistan is proving more realistic than ever - with the latest following an injured marine having difficulties adjusting to life at home.

In July , hundreds of US marines from the 8th Regiment's 2nd Battalion landed deep behind hostile lines in southern Afghanistan at the start of a major assault against the Taliban. Within hours they were surrounded and attacked from all sides. In the fighting that followed, one marine was killed and several others collapsed from heat exhaustion. Amid the chaos of battle, a photojournalist embedded with Echo Company, Danfung Dennis, was handed a precious bottle of water by a year-old sergeant, Nathan Harris.

It was the start of a friendship that would change both their lives. When the marines returned to their base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, at the end of their seven-month tour, Harris was missing. The squad leader had been seriously injured in a Taliban ambush two weeks earlier. Danfung Dennis tracked him down to his home in the small town of Yadkinville, more than miles km west of the base.

Sgt Harris' struggle to make the transition from the battlefield to the home front is the subject of an award-winning documentary, Hell and Back Again. It charts his increasing dependence on prescription painkillers, his attempts to rebuild his relationship with his wife and his mood swings, which lead at times to erratic and even menacing behaviour.

Hell and Back Again is the latest in a series of critically lauded documentaries to combine visceral footage from the Afghan front line with a deeper exploration of the lasting impact of war on its participants. It follows Armadillo, a film about the Danish role in the Afghan conflict, and the Oscar-nominated Restrepo.

The personal dangers faced by the makers of all three films aren't merely hypothetical.