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PK: So did you have particular filmmakers that inspired you to want to make movies?

ABL: Yeah, I had Werner Herzog.

PK: I would guess Herzog actually.

ABL: Yeah, I like his films, narrative or documentary. I watch a lot of documentaries.

PK: It feels sort of "Grizzly Man" in a way.

In which Pvt. Tillman Meets Pvt. Lynch and Bar-Lev sees religion in everything. (Read Part I of my interview here.)

PK: Also, military service was a tradition in his family.

ABL: Yeah, part of my reading list was stuff about Wittgenstein. It's not uncommon that people who live very safe lives volunteer to fight because.

Now that the Iraq War is over we can focus more of our anxiety, outrage, and depression on another flummoxed and bloody miscue, the war in Afghanistan. Already Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's "Restrepo" has recounted with harrowing detail of the day-to-day trials and heroism of an American outpost in one of the country's deadliest frontiers.