With Phil Donahue talking up his film Body of War on national television and the Sundance Channel debuting the stark documentary on the small screen last month, a growing audience has witnessed the shattered life of Tomas Young. But the Northland native who allowed the camera into his most intimate moments for the hard-hitting movie hasn't been seen for months. That's about to change. After six months at a rehabilitation facility in Chicago, Tomas Young, an Army veteran who took a bull
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Ranjit Arab had already read a story in the Lawrence Journal-World about Mike Sanger when he saw news footage of the Iraq war veteran returning his medals to Congressman Dennis Moore's office. He'd never met the guy, but the media portrayal of the anti-war activist rubbed Arab, pursuing a master's degree in journalism at the University of Kansas, the wrong way. With an award-winning documentary already on his resume, Arab decided to set the record straight himself by doing Sanger's story justice
