MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Humvee hits an Iraqi woman crossing a busy road at night. The driver pulls over and turret gunner Spc. Mike Moriarty watches helplessly as supply trucks runs over her, spreading her body parts across the road — and we watch with him.
That is the power of "The War Tapes," a documentary edited from more than 800 hours of film shot by several members of the New Hampshire National Guard in Iraq's deadly Sunni Triangle.
"Watching 10 transport trucks go over her like a rag doll ... hearing the sound of that Humvee hitting her — I'll never forget it," Moriarty said in an interview.
The movie was the brainchild of director Deborah Scranton of Goshen, who got an offer to embed with a Manchester-based company of the 172nd Mountain Infantry Regiment, thanks to a previous documentary she had made about World War II veterans from New Hampshire.
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