Ed Emmanuel is on a mission.
The former Vietnam veteran and filmmaker told some of his story in his 2003 memoir “Soul Patrol: The Riveting True Story of the First African American LRRP Team in Vietnam.” Ever since then he tried to film the documentary, but it never got told. Until filmmaker Jason “JM” Harper stepped in, and their film “Soul Patrol premiered Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival.
“I was left alive in Vietnam and able to come home and tell this story,” Emmanuel says. “My whole existence in Vietnam was me getting back home to tell the story about these brave Black men.”
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