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This week on NOW:
From cities and towns across America, local National Guard units are
being called to duty in extraordinary numbers and sent overseas to fight
in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, governors from several states
have started to speak out, worried that these citizen-soldiers are
shouldering too much of today's military burden at the expense of their
families and communities. David Brancaccio travels to Iowa, which in
the last two years has experienced the largest National Guard
mobilization since World War II, to uncover the impact of war on
small-town America, where workers and community leaders are being
uprooted, and families are being torn apart for conflicts abroad. The
report includes the poignant story of a married couple struggling with
leaving their children behind as they prepare to ship out.
The row over the authenticity of documents unearthed by 60 MINUTES' Dan
Rather about President Bush's National Guard service continues as CBS
blinked this week after squaring off with critics. Is a detrimental mix
of media and politics burying the real issues facing America? Bill
Moyers gets the perspectives of NOW's regular analysts, media expert
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and author Kevin Phillips.
Less than a week after watching the Pentagon burn from his Washington,
DC apartment window, Richard Murphy was compelled to serve his country
and set out to join the Army Reserves. In February 2003, as an MP,
Murphy was on his way to Iraq. His tour saw stints in combat patrols,
as a police academy trainer, as a machine gunner, and as a member of a
military police brigade assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. What he saw in
Iraq changed him. And while Murphy still believes in the mission, David
Brancaccio sits down with him to find out if what he saw on the ground
has changed his view of the war.
NOW gives viewers an intimate look at how global warming may affect one
of the most beautiful areas of America--the high meadows of the Rocky
Mountains. Take a step into what may be a frightening future as the
earth's temperature continues to rise in this profile of UC Berkeley
scientist John Harte, who has been simulating higher temperatures in the
Rocky Mountains to gauge what some extraordinary vistas may look like if
global warming continues at its predicted pace.
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