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It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i ...

Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon wor...

Covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally familiar with these womens backgrounds, we would just start by going down the line and have all of you briefly tell us how you came to be in vietnam. Its a far away place a long time a...

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But nothing, nothing, approaches what these women have done and what so many journalists, regardless of gender, i think you would all agree, men and women, did in opening the way to covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally fa...

Edie is going there to cover her. At 2 00 this afternoon, they told me, no, no, no, no press. Edilt is covering. I think thats where we start tonight. But if it makes news, you have got to give me a fill. Absolutely. I expect that we will have an absolutely exciting conversation tonight. I want to start by saying one thing. I am not a war correspondent. I am a point correspondent, and i am thrilled, honored and humbled to be with these women tonight. I work out of the point. I have travelled to ...

Im a pentagon correspondent, and im thrilled, honored, and humbled to be with these women tonight. I work out of the pentagon. I have traveled to war zones, but nothing, nothing, approaches what these women have done and what so many journalists, regardless of gender, i think you would all agree, men and women, did in opening the way to covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If not...

Share. Shes going back to new york tonight to cover the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Hell be at the u. N. Tomorrow. The pentagon said to me, no, no, no press. Edith got her way into it. I think thats where we start tonight. But if it makes news, youre got to give me a full. Absolutely. I expect that we will have an absolutely fascinating conversation tonight. I want to start by saying one thing. I am not a war correspondent. Im a pentagon correspondent, and im thrilled, honored, and hu...

Line with the book passage, thanks for coming out tonight. I was a child during the vietnam war living in turkey while my dad was reporting for the armed forces radio. He remembers it much more vividly than i do but for my dads generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study it history and words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the Associated Press. Over the period of the vietnam war, the month of the surprises for their cov...

On D-Day, The Associated Press had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields