HBO premieres Arlington documentary

[unhappycamper]

HBO premieres Arlington documentary
- Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 14, 2008 5:48:13 EDT

It isn’t likely to bring home the sorts of ratings “The Sopranos” scored for HBO.

So one must give the cable network kudos for putting the money, time and effort into producing a documentary with the decidedly noncommercial focus of the cemetery plot in Arlington, Va., where some of the nation’s war dead are buried, and where their families and friends come to mourn them.

“Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery” premieres nationally at 9 p.m. Eastern time Monday.

Section 60 is the final resting place for hundreds of troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the film’s focus is not on the troops themselves, per se, but on the impact of their deaths on those they left behind.

Those who knew them best were the honored guests Sunday night at a private premiere of the hourlong film, held in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Navy Memorial.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_section60film_101308/%2e