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We want people to feel that they are regular guys. You know, this is a scripted nonfiction you see in the most vivid graphic way and that's what we wanted. I think it's one of the things that the guys who were there it's really hard. We ask a lot of them: "It's called The Long Road Home, where are you on the long road home?" And the answers over these past years are "I'm still on the highway," "I'm knocking at the door," "I'll never be the same way I was before," but they are courageous. And whether those are visible wounds or invisible wounds, that still hurts. I think what I've learned, and I say this from the deepest part of my heart and I want people to hear this, is that people who lost people then, people who had loved ones wounded, they are still wounded. Martha Raddatz Recounts the Battle for Sadr City It's been healing for me, too, to see how much this means to them.
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I think it's been healing for a lot of the guys. I want to feel it," and I know that was healing for her. I want to see what my son saw that night. I said to her "Do you want to come back and not do this?" She said "No, no, no. We were both hugging her, holding her hand, she was crying. Ian Quinlan, who plays her son, walked with her and some family members down the street. We waited 'till the special effects were over because lots of loud bombing sounds going off. I took a Gold Star mother, who lost her son obviously in this battle, in the last night of shooting, and it was in the middle of the night, and the moon was shining through and she said she wanted to walk down the street that night.
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It looks so much like Sadr City, I found myself looking for IEDS on the streets. And I walked down those streets of recreated Sadr City with more than 80 buildings - acres and acres and acres. Military post Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Martha Raddatz and Mikko Alanne on set of 'The Long Road Home' at U.S.