November 11, 2009

In honor of our nation's veterans, Word of Mouth is stepping away from the microphone to bring you part three of the Boots On The Ground: Stories From The War In Iraq series from the Peabody-Award winning public radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge. Philip Gourevitch talks about the Errol Morris' film Standard Operating Procedure about the American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, General Ricardo Sanchez discusses his experiences at Abu Ghraib. Mike Hoyt, executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review talks about his work on Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. Brian Palmer was embedded for CNN three times with the 1st Battalion/Second Marines between 2004 and 2006. And Deborah Scranton, director of The War Tapes talks about giving New Hampshire National Guard soldiers the chance to record their experiences in combat in Iraq for one year.

(Photo courtesy The U.S. Army via Flickr/CreativeCommons)