Description:
    We welcome Morton Dean to present the first public screening of American Medevac, a documentary about revisiting veterans he once covered from the battlefield.
More than 40 years ago, CBS News journalist Morton Dean and CBS News cameraman Greg Cooke flew a combat medevac mission in Vietnam that became their most haunting memory from two lifetimes in journalism. They could not forget the men they met that day the American wounded and the men of the 236th Army Medical Detachment who risked their lives to save them.
The story lasted just seven minutes on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. But for Dean and Cooke, decades later, the memories refused to fade, so they set out to find them and to tell the stories of their lives.
The medevac pilot Bob Brady and his copilot Dan Stephenson had never met any of the hundreds of wounded infantrymen they rescued during the war. Now, they have! And to Deans and Cookes surprise, the veterans healing continues to this day, and may help guide the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The documentary embraces the bravery of the medevac crew and, by extension, all those who served their country during that controversial conflict.
A question and answer session will follow the film.
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