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Colvin, who was raised in East Norwich and graduated from Oyster Bay High School, was a world-renowned foreign affairs correspondent.
War properly without risk. covering a war means going into places torn by chaos, destruction, death and pain and trying to bear witness to that. that's exactly what she did for more than 20 years covering conflicts around the world until her terrible death under fire in syria february 22nd, 2012, while covering the civil war there. just hours before colvin provided this report to the bbc. >> there are shells, rockets coming in just hitting any building. i've not seen one military target. they are simply everywhere. the wounded and dead i have seen, about 80% civilians. it is shelling with impu...