iv >> srean: all right, megan thompson joining us from washington, d.c. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, hari. >> sreenivasan: every nation that has gone to war has its war heroes, and iraq is no exception. an estimated 30,000 iraqi fighters were killed from 2014 to 2017 during the successful battle to oust isis, and manymo were wounded. with isis now resurgent in the tiuntry's north, there are more casualties today. but many wounded vr erans and dows feel like they're being treated as anything but he wes. newshokend special correspondent simona foltyn has our story. mo reporter: the city of najaf in iraq's south is shia islam's holiest sites. it houses the shrine of imam ali, the cousin and son-in-ldi of, and, acc to the shia, the rightful successor to the prophet mommed. najaf is also home to the world's largest cemeteli. for shia m, it's an honor to be buried here, particularly for men who gave their lives fighting in the four-year war against isis. busloads arrive daily to visit the graves of loved ones. fawzia kadhum and shuagh kareem are wi

newshour weekend's megan thompson has our report. >> reporter: charlie gilpin, jr. fires up his boat and heads out to fish a stretch of the iclinois river, about 100 miles west of o. he's spent most of his adult life working on the lakes and rivers of the upper midwest. >> i'm a third-generation commercial fisherman. i've been doinit for about 22, years. >> reporter: like a typical fisherman, gilpin gets an early stt. he drives while an assistant sets out the nets.'s >> now lee if we can scare 'em. >> reporter: what comes next... not so tical. >> go ahead, doug! >> reporter: this is how you catch asian carp. the loud sounds startle the fish and push them into the nets. the other unusual thing, tse fish jump. the flopping, flailing fish are an invasive species wreaking havoc on lakes and rivers across the south and miest. relpin and the other fishermen out he today are employed by the state of illinois. their mission: pull as many carp out of the river as they can. kevin irons runs the program. >> whenever any of theps are out of balance, there's too many of them, th

megan thompson recently sat down with a former soldier as well as the film's director. >> reporter: when laila ireland was 17 years old, she joined the army. she was assigned to be an interrogator, and deployed twice to iraq. ireland eventually became a corporal, continuing a long tradition of military service in her family. th my father was in the military, my grand was in the military, my great grandfather was in the military. and i wanted to be part of that legacy, part of that tradition, but i also understood thf being a parte tradition did not allow me to really be myself. >> reporter: that's because ireland is transgender. when she enlisted in 2003, there was a ban on transgender people serving. the u.s. military had long considered issues related to being transgender as disqualifying physical and mental conditions. so, during her 12 years in the army, ireland often couldn't identify openly as a woman. >> it was difficult, having to live by the core values of the military where i would... one of the most important ones to me is integrity. and i violated that on a daily absis by not