The Story of In the Shadow of the Blade

“ This isn’t a movie. This is a healing experience.”
--Donald Singleton,
Vietnam combat infantry veteran

On October 2, 2002, husband and wife team Patrick and Cheryl Fries and their Arrowhead Film and Video production crew lifted off on a documentary film mission to follow a restored Vietnam-veteran UH-1H “Huey” helicopter on a 10,000 mile flight across the country. Accompanied by an aerial cinematography chopper and three support vehicles, the crew of In the Shadow of the Blade recorded more than 200 hours of interviews, reunions, and ceremonies inspired by the Huey’s flight to small towns and major cities, backyards and farmyards, and memorials and military bases.

The Fries recruited four volunteer Vietnam veterans to help crew their mission and relied on donations from individuals and businesses to supplement their investment in the half-million dollar production, much of it going to lease and insure the 35-year-old Huey helicopter. The crew relied on the goodwill of film participants and the sale of t-shirts to cover food and transportation expenses during filming.



Shadow of the Blade website
http://www.intheshadowoftheblade.com/index.html

Mike I have went to LZ New Mexico a couple of times they make you feel like old Home Week the true Brothers in arms that we are.

Great post SSGMike>Ivy I have a copy of the Shadow of the Blade. It brought back some memories. I need to figure a way to post the video on the youtube.

Coachman i purchased my copy right after seeing this on a special on TV. Watch it now and then again, brings back some good times and well some bad times, once you sit back and let your mind wonder [ but my mind wonders all the time anyway]