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...village became trapped in the crossfire. As soon as the shooting ceased, the father raced frantically toward the U.S. Army field hospital. The Iraqi man was holding his young son, who had suffered a broken leg. Dwyer sprinted out to the father and rescued the child, sheltering him from danger as he retreated back to a secure area. Army Times photographer Warren Zinn took the now-famous picture as Dwyer ran to cover with the child in his arms. Dwyer later said, “You know, for [the father] to trust us to take his child over and know...
...you’re in danger, draw attention to yourself,” he said. “Don’t yell ‘help’ because people use that to joke [around...
...other good reasons not to show the true face of war, especially when the photos in question are acts of aggression perpetrated by an enemy intent on damaging American morale. But the desire not to sicken or offend the noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become a nation of pacifists, but the exact opposite might be the case. The photo on this page...
...years old, the acting platoon leader for the 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company. We were charged with one of the most dangerous missions that day, and we had been training for it since April. After we landed on the beach of Pointe du Hoc, which was between Omaha and Utah beaches, we were supposed to climb the 100-foot-high cliffs and take out the German cannons we believed were stationed there. The guns had a 10-to 12-mile range and were a danger to the forces landing at Utah and Omaha...
...Powell's camp. In fact, in his taciturn, deliberate way, Cheney was starting to go through a shift in his intellectual bearings. "Dick Cheney," says Wolfowitz, "is someone whose view of the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein was transformed by Sept. 11--by the recognition of the danger posed by the connection between terrorists and WMDs and by the growing evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda." After Sept. 11, Cheney began running a self-education seminar on Islam and the Middle East, meeting with experts, a Cheney aide says, "to discuss how might a postwar Iraq...