by Tena Starr
LYNDON — How do we experience war?
For the most part, we don’t.
“The vaunted military divide is real,” said best-selling author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger at Friday’s veterans conference at Northern Vermont University–Lyndon.
He went on to remedy that for himself by, among other things, spending a total of 15 months, over five trips, imbedded with a platoon of U.S. soldiers in the dangerous Korengal Valley of Afghanistan during the war there. That led to the books War and Tribe as well as the documentaries Restrepo and Korengal, the first of which was an Academy Award nominee and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
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