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Young Veterans Come of Age During Wartime

Clip: 11/10/2011 | 5m 17s

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Dominic Fredianelli is among a tight-knit group of childhood friends from Michigan's Upper Peninsula who joined the National Guard together after graduating high school. In Where Soldiers Come From, a new documentary airing tonight on POV, filmmaker Heather Courtney follows them over four years as they are deployed to Afghanistan where they spend their days searching for IEDs.

11/10/2011

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