![]() "There's no way I could just take a stroll through memory lane if i wanted to," he said last week after a panel discussion about the show at the Defense Information School. For Bourquin, who worked as a production consultant for the show, the fabricated town gave him tangible closure. More than 80 buildings were erected at the Elijah urban training site at Fort Hood, Texas, where the division is headquartered, to resemble homes and streets in Sadr City. Eastern time, recreated scenes from the ambush that sparked a four-year battle for the Iraqi city. Using photos, video and memories collected from Soldiers there, producers of The Long Road Home, which premieres on the National Geographic channel Tuesday at 9 p.m. The eight-hour ordeal left eight of his fellow Soldiers dead and wounded him and about 50 others. While on the set of an upcoming TV show revolving around a deadly ambush that he and other 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers endured in Iraq, Eric Bourquin managed to get the emotional healing he had sought for years.Īs a 23-year-old sergeant, he was part of a four-vehicle convoy attacked in Sadr City just outside of Baghdad on Ap- a day later known as Black Sunday. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 5 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. ![]() The structures were made to resemble portions of Sadr City, a neighborhood in Baghdad where 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers were. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 4 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption –Ĭast members of The Long Road Home miniseries perform a scene inside a fabricated Middle Eastern town at Fort Hood, Texas. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. Iraq War veteran Eric Bourquin, left, talks about being part of The Long Road Home, a TV miniseries based on the Black Sunday ambush in Sadr City where he and other 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers fought in, during a panel discussion at the Defense Inf. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Martha Raddatz, left, author of The Long Road Home, participates in a panel discussion with members of the cast and crew of a miniseries with the same name at the Defense Information School on Fort Meade, Md., Oct.
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