“How Much Easier It Is To Comprehend The Risks That Soldiers & Journalists Take…”

CNN producer Cal Perry was at the Baghdad combat hospital when Kimberly Dozier arrived, critically injured, on Memorial Day. In a CNN.com essay, he shares his recollections:

“…I hand a bloodied microphone transmitter that says ‘CBS NEWS BAGHDAD’ to the security guards escorting a CBS producer.

And then a sick realization hits me: How much easier it is to comprehend the risks that soldiers and journalists take here, the courage they show and the sacrifices they make when you see them lying on an emergency room bed, their bodies shattered by shrapnel…”