Three Wisconsin Iraq War Veterans have just published a book documenting the year their national guard unit spent in Iraq. The 127th infantry battallion came under attack hundreds of times but the book is not filled with picturesof bloody battle scenes . Instead it’s a thoughtful photo essayabout a year that changed the lives of more than 600 young men from small towns in Wisconsin. Gil Halsted reports….
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