Film chronicles a KC veteran’s journey from warrior to anti-warrior

[LeighAnn]

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/327137.html

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Young, a graduate of Winnetonka High School in Kansas City, North, is one of more than 28,000 military men and women who have returned home less than whole — wounded physically, mentally or both.

And like some of his former brothers and sisters in arms, Young had spoken out against a war that he did not believe in even before his unit deployed in March 2004.

Mike Wallace profiled him early last year in a "60 Minutes" segment about wounded Iraqi war vets, and Young has recounted his journey from warrior to "anti-warrior" for media outlets from coast to coast.

Now, Young’s tale of attitude, war and its painful human cost is on the verge of going wider. He is the subject of a documentary film produced and co-directed by television’s Phil Donahue. The movie, "Body of War," needs a distributor and is being shopped this fall at film festivals — last month in Toronto, this past weekend in the Hamptons.

And if you’ve caught wind of rocker Eddie Vedder’s anti-war anthem, "No More," which he wrote for Donahue’s movie, the inspiration came directly from Young, ordinary guy and profoundly wounded vet.

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