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Theaters of War

Unable to swallow pills, unable to pull a trigger, unwilling to implicate anyone else,...

REPORTER: Unable to swallow pills, unable to pull a trigger, unwilling to implicate anyone else, Thomas plans to starve himself to death

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REPORTER: Unable to swallow pills,
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unable to pull a trigger, unwilling to implicate anyone
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else, Thomas plans to starve himself to death.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:35
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
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Movie Summary

If you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you might suspect all that military machinery comes with strings attached. This influence is not limited to a handful of movies, though. A vast new trove of internal documents reveals that t...
ANCHOR: Wounded April Fourth, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, - Theaters of War 00:13
ANCHOR: Wounded April Fourth, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq,
TOMAS YOUNG: You are each guilty of egregious war - Theaters of War 00:17
TOMAS YOUNG: You are each guilty of egregious war
He was well read and a cool guy. - Theaters of War 00:07
He was well read and a cool guy.
- I think they depicted him as a douche bag. - Theaters of War 00:06
- I think they depicted him as a douche bag.
You ever even been shot at? - Theaters of War 00:05
You ever even been shot at?
ROGER STAHL: The show carefully controls - Theaters of War 00:06
ROGER STAHL: The show carefully controls
But you come away with the sense that he's - Theaters of War 00:05
But you come away with the sense that he's
According to the documents, the Army - Theaters of War 00:06
According to the documents, the Army
And of course, they completely avoid mentioning his suicide. - Theaters of War 00:06
And of course, they completely avoid mentioning his suicide.
The show also went to work correcting any impression - Theaters of War 00:07
The show also went to work correcting any impression
This was curious, because in the book, - Theaters of War 00:08
This was curious, because in the book,
They also failed to anticipate the need for armored equipment. - Theaters of War 00:04
They also failed to anticipate the need for armored...
Scores of soldiers had to head into the firefight - Theaters of War 00:07
Scores of soldiers had to head into the firefight
But the show lets the man in charge, Battalion Commander - Theaters of War 00:08
But the show lets the man in charge, Battalion Commander
The series puts him where he wasn't, in a Humvee - Theaters of War 00:06
The series puts him where he wasn't, in a Humvee
This was a spot that, in reality, - Theaters of War 00:06
This was a spot that, in reality,
Lewis disappears from the story entirely. - Theaters of War 00:04
Lewis disappears from the story entirely.
DUNCAN KOEBRICH: I wrote to one of my buddies about it. - Theaters of War 00:05
DUNCAN KOEBRICH: I wrote to one of my buddies about it.
I said, I think they're going to put Colonel Volesky in Captain - Theaters of War 00:07
I said, I think they're going to put Colonel Volesky in...
And he said, that would be a serious deviation - Theaters of War 00:05
And he said, that would be a serious deviation