By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI
After a bullet from Iraqi rebels paralyzed him from the chest down, Northland native and Army veteran Tomas Young agreed to film the splintering of his life in the hopes that the brutally honest documentary would serve as a counter-recruitment tool. But Body of War, made by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, has become much more than an obscure DVD watched by peace activists in church basements or something for the PBS archives.
Body of War chronicles in unflinching detail
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
