OF4-05/22/08 9:25 AM
KIMBERLY DOZIER SHARES HER STORY.
The Osgood File. I'm Charles Osgood.
On Memorial Day two years ago, a CBS News team was working with American soldiers and an Iraqi translator in Baghdad when a car bomb exploded ... killing four of them, including two members of the CBS News crew --- cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan -- and severely injuring Correspondent Kimberly Dozier.
Although her wounds were critical, she survived ... and recovered. And now in a book --- "Breathing the Fire" --- is her own story of what happened.
SOT - Kimberly Dozier, CBS News Correspondent
"The moment I opened my eyes in Landstuhl, the moment I could put pen to paper --- while I still had a tube down my throat --- I started writing what I could remember..."
Our CBS News colleague Kimberly Dozier has always been a skilled reporter...
SOT - Kimberly Dozier
"I needed to talk about everything I could remember. And further on down the line, I tried to track down everyone I could find who was at the scene and at the medical facilities afterwards, to fill in all the blanks of what I wasn't present for --- what I was unconscious during. And that is a typical part of a trauma victim's journey to survivor. You need to know what happened."
For example...
SOT - Kimberly Dozier
"I needed to know: How big was the car bomb? Where was it located? Where did we fall? Who helped me when? What did I say? What did they say? What were they able to tell me? And putting all these details together was part of also what helped me put it behind me."
The book is also a tribute to the doctors and nurses ... and of course, the troops. Yes, she took risks as a journalist...
SOT - Kimberly Dozier
"But that's nothing compared to the risks that the troops daily take for far less pay, under much worse circumstances. And they don't choose which patrol they're going to go film, like I got to do. And they don't get their mug on TV to say, 'Look at me in the middle of a war zone.'"
"Breathing the Fire" --- a gripping and very human story by a woman we here are proud to call our colleague: Kimberly Dozier.
The Osgood File. Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network.
The Osgood File. May 22nd, 2008. |
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