She remembers kissing her son goodbye at Fort Hood before his deployment, like it was yesterday. In fact, we had so much fun the first year, were releasing another round. The Long Road Home tells the story of the eight-hour battle in Sadr City on April 4, 2004, that followed the ambush of a newly-arrived American platoon. We hope you enjoy the world we created as much as we enjoyed writing it for you. Arsiaga's mother, Sylvia Macias, now lives in Galveston. The Long Road Home is a connected series of standalone contemporary military romantic suspense novels written in a shared world. One of the soldiers who died on that day 13 years ago was Spc. "If she didn't write this book, then we wouldn't be in this recreated scene from Iraq during the worst part of the war." "It's emotional because this is Martha's creation," said Bob Woodruff, ABC News correspondent and Raddatz's colleague. "I have been fascinated through my career about how soldiers and families.who were in a minivan one day and a Humvee the next day, deal with fear, how they deal with things when they're put in situations they never expected to be in, no matter what their training is," Raddatz said. Bonilla, Kate Bosworth, Sarah Wayne Callies, Noel Fisher and Jeremy Sisto. But what she's most proud of is the soldiers and families that are being remembered. Starring Michael Kelly, Jason Ritter, E.J. The Long Road Home draws its story from Black Sunday, the name given to the ambush that caught members of the First Cavalry Division in Sadr City and led to a days-long siege with. Based on Martha Raddatzs book of the same name, THE LONG ROAD HOME is an eight-part scripted series that chronicles the story of Black Sunday, a day during the Iraq War when a small platoon of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division was ferociously ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, on April 4, 2004. Summary: The eight-part limited series based on the book by ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz focuses on the Fort Hood soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter who were ambushed on Apin Iraqs Sadr City. For Raddatz, seeing her passion project come alive on the screen is a pinch-me moment. During filming, it was the largest television set in North America. The house is just one example of how designers transformed the already existing training village on Fort Hood.Įighty-five buildings were built or reconstructed.
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