From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war. A documentary about growing up, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM, is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars and the families and town they come from. Returning to her hometown, Director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access following these young men as they grow and change from teenagers stuck in their town, to 23-year-old veterans facing the struggles of returning home. (Source)
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Childhood friends from a snowy small town in Northern Michigan join the National Guard when they graduate from their rural high school because they need money for college. This is the beginning of their 4-year journey as soldiers looking for roadside bombs in Afghanistan to their return as 23-year-old combat veterans struggling to start their lives again. (