They wanted a three-hour film for this funding but the filmmakers managed to get one hour out. My first response when watching was that this was something that you could have taken ten hours to explore. Karl Marlantes and Colonel Kazmier Oceanside, CA. It’s three major phases and it’s roughly 20 minutes of each. It’s how society prepares people to go to war, the experience of actually going to war, and then the return from war. They've got us as talking heads in this one-hour documentary coming out for Memorial Day. That came out just after "What It Is Like to Go to War." Since then he's done another book called " Tribe," which I highly recommend. I know Sebastian Junger because his book, " War," came out at the same time that " Matterhorn" did. And they got funding, they got a lot of funding from Freddie Smith, a Marine. JoAnna was the one behind the documentary and PBS is airing it.
War is a huge part of the human experience. Not, you know, the Vietnam War or the Gulf War or whatever war we’re in now. The show started with my book, " What It Is Like to Go to War." An executive at Twin Cities Public Television named JoAnna Baldwin Mallory read it and thought it would be very interesting to do a documentary that explored war, in general. Give some background on "Going to War." What is it, and who is it for? Karl's thought long and hard about the moral issues faced by those who fight and he's got a lot to say that's worth considering. Karl Marlantes was one of the most insightful interview subjects in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick PBS documentary "The Vietnam War" and he wrote "Matterhorn," a book many consider to be the finest war novel published this century.
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