The Things Their Families Carried

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Jessica Gray, with her infant daughter, Ava, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
to visit the grave of her husband, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray.

Documentaries come into being in lots of ways, but not many have begun with a phone call of condolence made to a graveyard.

Such was the catalyst for “Section 60,” a somber film on HBO Monday night about the impromptu community that has evolved in the part of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia where the war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan are being buried. For four months last year the filmmakers, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill, more or less camped out in Section 60 with their cameras, capturing the stages and types of mourning of spouses, parents, children and friends who came there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/arts/television/11sect.html?pagewanted=1