CBS correspondent tells of day the bomb went off

[babylonsister]

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/7685427.html

CBS correspondent tells of day the bomb went off
By Matea Gold
Los Angeles Times


Last Memorial Day, CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan headed out on a sweltering Baghdad morning to do a fairly routine story: the tale of an Army unit on patrol while Americans back at home enjoyed the holiday.

Dozier had lain awake the night before with the usual anxiety she felt before going on a patrol. But by morning, her dread had ebbed, and her biggest concern was getting enough good material for a holiday piece.

"It should have been a normal day," she said quietly, recounting the fateful assignment almost a year later.

In some ways, it was - at least by Baghdad standards.

The CBS team and members of the Army's 4th Infantry Division were outside their Humvees in the Karradah neighborhood when, shortly after 10 a.m., a yellow cab packed with explosives was detonated by remote control.

Dozier was rocketed into blackness. She regained consciousness long enough to ask the soldier frantically attending to her shrapnel-pierced body: "Where are my guys? How are my guys?"


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Casualties of war

include those who survive without physical wounds. The report of the driver crying at his captain's grave was poignant.

[Rydz777]

2. Glad you posted this. I watched the interview with Dozier and

I was struck by two things: (1)the medical field station had run out of blood and the doctors gave their own blood to save the patients; and (2) Dozier is still suffering from medical problems ("Iraqi bacteria") that the doctors don't know how to treat.

Her experience is just a brief insight into the larger horror that our troops are facing every hour. It confirms my strong belief in OUT NOW.