woensdag, mei 31, 2006
On The Lifeline by Rick Loomis
The Digital Journalist |
Going back to Iraq was not an easy choice. I had been twice already. The first time was for the invasion in 2003. The second was in 2004 for a battle in Fallujah that ensued after four U.S. contractors were killed and hung from a bridge. Each trip had been more perilous than the last and I thought that maybe I'd had enough.
But while talking with writer David Zucchino in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina disaster he mentioned the story he was trying to put together in Iraq. His premise was to show the medical care wounded soldiers receive by telling the intimate stories of just a few select individuals. It was a fresh and important story that had yet to be told. I immediately told him that I wanted to help him tell the story visually. David had already spent months jumping through hoops trying to set it up and it was almost another two months before we got clearance to head over there.
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