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Kevin Bacon, left, plays Michael Strobl, center, who wrote the screenplay for Taking Chance with director Ross Katz.
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Kevin Bacon, who plays Strobl, says he initially rejected the role because of the generally tepid viewer response to war-themed films.
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Kevin Bacon plays Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl, who escorts the coffin of a young Marine home.
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Strobl shared his 20-page journal of the trip with friends and co-workers, and it eventually spread virally to military blogs and the media.
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On August 12th, 2009 at 6: 04 pm, Paul Strobl wrote:
When Nebbiolo’s not for newbies – and toward a general theory of bitter | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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The man taking Chance home is Michael Strobl (Bacon), the Marine lieutenant colonel who co-wrote the film and wrote the journal on which it's based.
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A Desert Storm veteran turned stateside analyst, Strobl spends each night scrolling through the Iraq War casualty lists.
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(Was there no one Strobl met who was bitter over Chance's loss or saw it as a waste?)
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"I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died," Strobl says when his own mission is over.
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It's based on real events and the experiences of Marine Lt.Col. Mike Strobl, who wrote Taking Chance as a powerful tribute not only to Chance Phelps, a 19-year-old Marine killed during a 2004 firefight, but to scores of fellow war victims.
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