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...Portrait of a Platoon," written by Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf and edited by Lisa Beyer and Steve Koepp, won the National Headliner Award for war coverage, while Joe Klein won first place in the magazine-column category. Weisskopf and Nachtwey won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage from the Los Angeles Press Club. And Weisskopf, Brian Bennett and Michael Ware won honorable mention for best magazine reporting from abroad from the Overseas Press Club for a series of Iraq pieces...
...bogus evidence to bolster his case for war, and an up-close look by Brian Bennett and Michael Ware at the methods being employed by the insurgents fighting the U.S. We ended 2003 by naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, which included a profile by Michael Weisskopf and Romesh Ratnesar of the Tomb Raiders, an artillery survey unit in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division. As many of you know, Weisskopf and photographer James Nachtwey were seriously wounded in a grenade attack while traveling with the unit...
...Members of the 1st Armored Division's Survey Platoon, nicknamed the Tomb Raiders, felt like my family after I read TIME's profiles of them. They are the best and brightest. Every American should be proud of them. The account of how TIME journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey were injured after Weisskopf grabbed a grenade thrown into their humvee, saving the lives of several soldiers, gave sharp insight into what is really going on in Iraq. I understood what our troops face every day. As I read the article, I wanted to protect and praise each trooper. Thank...
...Army's 1st Armored Division Survey Platoon, nicknamed the Tomb Raiders, was thought-provoking [Dec. 29--Jan. 5]. After I read the profiles of platoon members, I felt I knew them like my family. Every American should be proud of them. The account of how TIME journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey were injured after Weisskopf grabbed a grenade thrown into their humvee, saving the lives of several soldiers, gave sharp insight into what is really going on in Iraq. I understood what our troops face every day. Thank you for this honest and valuable report. TAMARA M. ANTHONY Shrewsbury...
...looking for weapons hidden in one of the city's cemeteries. Shortly before Thanksgiving, our team gathered in Baghdad to embed with the Tomb Raiders. Romesh Ratnesar, a writer based in New York City who had already spent three months this year in Iraq, was joined by Michael Weisskopf, a senior correspondent in Washington who had spent four weeks earlier this year reporting out of Baghdad. James Nachtwey, the legendary war photographer, who insisted on staying in the Iraqi capital when the war began last March, joined them two days later...