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This is what remained after a battle that would take eight american soldiers lives and leave dozens wounded. Almost undescribable. Probably the loudest thing ive ever heard. Fair came from the righthand side of the street and the left and the front and the rear reporter april 4th, 2004. One of the first ferocious battles with insurgents during what was supposed to be a Reconstruction Mission for the 1st cavalry division. 18 soldiers and their interpreter pinned down in an alley in the slum of sadr city in baghdad. The rest of the battalion racing to rescue them. Unprotected. Exposed. Facing masses of armed militiamen. We see the Charlie Company truck just like the one we were riding in, rode down the road to us, four flat tires. Engine on fire. Wounded. It was shocking at first to see these battle wounds. The best word i can come up with is it was just like a tidal wave. Reporter in the wake of that tidal wave, those dozens wounded, eight dead. At almost exactly the same time the shooting began reporter weve been reporting on this story since 2004. Only a few images of the battle existed then. But the soldiers memories have echoed for us through the years. When you go to a veterans ceremony and you see the old veterans get together and hug and cry, you never really understood it. I understand it now. Reporter and we understand that feeling today. 13 years later. This is just extraordinary. To see the flags and to see reporter when we returned to sadr city in a way these should be basically a match to the real buildings right here. Reporter here at ft. Hood, painstaking reconstructions of sadr city. A hollywoodcaliber set for a National Geographic miniseries. Were rolling reporter based on my book about the battle the long road home. Come on, baby. Reporter there is heartpumping action. But also the heartbreak of the families of the fallen. Who were invited to the set to see the recreation. This is so hard. Tell me what the hardest part is today. Just remembering and wishing he was here, not that he was in a movie, right . Yeah. Just feeling my emotions again. I know. I love you. I love you. Reporter actress Kate Bosworth is playing gina, wife of troy, one of the wounded in the battle. Your legs just kind of go weak. Its just an unbelievable feeling of fear. Its always to keep in mind that we are telling the stories of heroes. That includes the troops but it includes their families. Reporter its a responsibility for the actors portraying these reallife heros to get it right. Jeremy sisto, playing salve Sergeant Robert miltonberger how are you . Nice to meet you. Reporter asks his reallife counterpart to walk him through that horrible day. Is there moments that you have like, maybefy turned to the left as opposed to the right . No, no. The guilt is that i didnt get shot, and they did. Thats it. Reporter hes not alone. So i was scared to start on this project. Its a lot easier now. Reporter aaron fowler, he was shot multiple times trying to rescue his fellow soldiers. Now hes a technical adviser for the miniseries. Let me close a chapter in my life that i didnt get to before. Maybe it opens one too. It does, and thats another thing too. I honestly a year ago, i was inpatient for depression suicide. I did not think my future held any more opportunities compared to war and combat and everything like that. Here i am a year later and everythings different. Reporter the gravity of the role weighs heavy on Michael Kelley, who is playing thenlieutenant colonel gary valeski. Please bring my baby home. I promise you, every man is coming back safely. How can you promise that . Because i believe that too and because its my responsibility. We wanted to the men who did this in real life, the justice that they deserve. So i think that part is really special. Thats what i think the heart and the care comes from. Reporter the man Michael Kelley is portraying now a threestar general. Gary veleski perfectly captured that heart and care all those years ago. Uncommon valor was common that day. Because there were soldiers doing things that we talk about, but you dont teach stuff like that. You can get them to that point, but where they go in combat where when those rounds are being directed at them, how they react, you know, no one knows until it happens. And they all just performed magnificently. So, you know, im honored to be able to serve these soldiers like that. Reporter for nightline, im martha rad dates in ft. Hood, texas. The long road home can be seen on tuesday nights on National Geographic. Last night was the annual stand up for heroes benefit here in new york city, hosted by bob woodruff. Abcs david muir went backstage to meet a veteran you wont forget. Reporter down the stairs, backstage at Madison Square garden in new york, we were out to find the heroes. Its an honor to meet you. Thank you. Reporter retired corporal chianti story, a marine. I was injured in 2010 reporter he was on patrol with his marine unit. There was an ied in a compound in hell land province. 12 of them stepped over it. But when he did, everything went into a gray haze. It severed his right leg below the knee. Tried to figure out what just happened. And just really tried to calm myself down. And i was going down a dark hole that i didnt want to go down. Reporter determined to change that, he quit the pain meds then the rehab, the running, the reaching for the top. Climbing to the summit of antarcticas mt. Vincent, then climbing kill la man jairo. A real underachiever. Reporter an audience waiting. We have our own challenges when we return home. Our own mountains to climb. Reporter bob woodruff and his life lee celebrating him. 11 years now standing up for heroes. After bobs accident, reporting a roadside bomb 2006. Now years of helping others. Its been the most satisfying thing ive ever done in my life. Reporter his dedication and those Wounded Warriors pulling in jon stewart every year. You get to see people progress through their recovery and you follow through their ups and downs and it becomes personal. Yeah. Family. Thats right. Reporter invest noah join the fight. I think people like bob make you realize that you cant control what happens to you, but you can control how you react. Reporter john oliver, whose own wife an American Army medic, veteran of the iraq war. Dont allow their humility to allow the rest of us they dont whine. Theyre unlike me. Im a natural whiner. Reporter back on that stage, a beaming retired corporate and a message. We are not alone. Reporter determined to help the warriors coming home behind him. When we come back i used to love you so much with hits like used to love you racking up tens of millions of views on youtube, how cma newcomer kane brown is breaking the Country Music mold. 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When you hear his voice youll understand why. Hes got the soul and sound of the most traditional country ledge jebs but he says hes been told he doesnt quite look like one. Its a perception he tells us hes been battling his entire life. Heres abcs Adrienne Bankert. Reporter its one of the biggest nights in Country Music. Everybody welcome kane brown reporter and for newcomer kane brown, arguably the biggest night of his career. Theres a ufc fight performing live alongside one of his idols host and superstar brad paisley. Fireworks tonight reporter the babyfaced 24yearold with a big voice has taken the industry by storm. What if i was made for you and you were made for me reporter last month. Jimmy what ifs helped him become the first artist history to simultaneously top all five major country charts. For a lot of people, especially in the Country Music industry, you came out of nowhere. You cant take the traditional route to nashville. I think im the first one to break through on in Country Music through social media. Reporter three years ago he was a kid from chattanooga, tennessee, hosting covers on social media. I dont dance here i am thats what started everything for me is the i dont dance cover. I woke up one morning, my phone went crazy, i thought i got hacked. I had 900 friend requests. Reporter those friends became hundreds of thousands of followers. I used to think you never say its over i used to love you so much reporter earning him his first hit single used to love you sober which has close to 43 million views on youtube. What do you think did it for your fan base, for your followers . I still dont know. I think its because i opened up to them. I let them know my life. Reporter raised by a single mom struggling to make ends meet, kane moved around a lot as a child and said he was bullied in school. Growing up where i grew up, i always got called the n word, all this crazy stuff, picked on and bullied. Reporter experiences he shares in his song learning. Thats why im learning how to let it go reporter today he says shes challenging perceptions about what country looks like. Being in Country Music, being biracial is kind of hard. I get talked down so much because of my look. I really want to change this. I dont feel you should look a certain way to sing a certain genre. Everybody thinks im a rapper, i cant be a country artist. It drives me crazy. How do you think youre going to change the Country Music industry . I think im different, i want to change stereotypes. You cant be scared to be different. Reporter while many see him as the new school of Country Music, his vocals compared to legends like johnny cash and randy travis. I honestly love the old school sound. I feel like im an old soul when it comes to that stuff. But im mixed in with new school. I like to sound how i do sound right now. Theres times where i want to go back and i do want to write Old School Songs but you dont know if people are going to go to a party and play that song. Youre fire im lightning reporter with songs like thunder in the rain. And heaven. Heaven heaven his voice is obviously incredible. He has this country vocal. But just when you meet him, talk to him, see him, hes a cultural crossover. Reporter kane now calls narcville home, where he lives with his fiancee kaitlin. On music row. Reporter he shared his creative process. You hear a, b, a, b . Or a, a, b, b . Today is our writing session and i havent had one in a very long time. These are the guys i wrote my first number one with, what ifs. Reporter he says he finds inspiration for new music in everyday conversation. Talking to radio stations, talking about my fiancee and our engagement. And this guy on the radio, he said, you dont want it to be over before it started. And i was like, can you repeat what you just said . I wrote it down. Thats what we were just writing right there. Reporter its hours before showtime in new orleans where hes opening for jason aldean. Want me to go first . I want you to go first. Reporter kane and his band take time to unwind. There you go. Oh, yeah so were basically on a tour bus with 12 guys. Its better than being in a van with 12 guys. Whats the best part, whats the hardest part . The best parts being a family. The hardest parts being a family. Atlanta, all the way to seagate lounge reporter were backstage. After a quick group huddle its showtime. Theres three reasons to maybe start doing it. One is to make my hometown proud. Two is to make my family proud. Three was to make myself proud. But tonight i want to make new orleans proud. So make noise together. All i want to do is make my hometown proud reporter with his fans singing along i just want to be able to do arenas. I want people just to know my music. Reporter theres not much stopping him now. You say that youre shy. 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