{"id":2252210,"date":"2026-01-27T03:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252210"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:49:09","slug":"soul-patrol-review-sundance-documentary-serves-up-the-elegant-elegiac-vietnam-war-history-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soul-patrol-review-sundance-documentary-serves-up-the-elegant-elegiac-vietnam-war-history-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Soul Patrol\u2019 Review: Sundance Documentary Serves Up the Elegant, Elegiac Vietnam War History We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel<\/a> wrote the memoir \u201cSoul Patrol<\/a>\u201d (2003), the gesture could have been likened to that of a marooned man sending out a message in a bottle. Although he\u2019s had a decades-long career in the film industry, Emanuel<\/a> had lived with troubled memories of serving in the first African American special operations six-man Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol team. His tour ran from 1968-1969. As profoundly bonded as those men had been in combat, they\u2019d lost touch in the intervening years. He hoped the book would find its way to his compatriots and if so, maybe they\u2019d find their way to him. It did. They did. And the men began having reunions.<\/p>\n

In director J.M. Harper<\/a>\u2019s haunting, revelatory documentary \u201cSoul Patrol<\/a> \u2014 premiering at the Sundance Film Festival \u2014 the veterans gather at a hotel for their final reunion in 2024. The film features Emanuel as well as other…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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