That emotionally charged, moving film had its debut on HBO February 19. It tells the true story of the death of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps in Iraq in 2004 and the journey that Marine Lt. Col. Mike Strobl underwent after he volunteered to escort the body from Dover Air Force Base to Phelps’ hometown of Dubois, Wyoming. Strobl’s journal of that moving journey is the heart of the film.
Bill Nelson, the chairman and CEO of HBO, will be on hand to introduce the film at the Saturday screening. Nelson, a Vietnam veteran and VVA member, received VVA’s Excellence in the Arts Award on behalf of HBO in 2007. Mike Strobl also will be in Louisville to help introduce the Saturday screening. He will receive the VVA President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts at the Saturday night Awards Banquet. John Phelps, Chance Phelps’ father, a Vietnam veteran, also will be at the screening. John Phelps, a renowned painter and sculptor, will receive the Excellence in the Arts Award at the banquet.
To read The VVA Veteran’s arts editor Marc Leepson’s review of Taking Chance, go to
http://blog.vva.org/?p=261
