the correspondents’ voices, the concern for the fate of other countries. They had a necessary belief in the importance of journalism, not only because it was among the ways they could justify why they imperiled their bodies. These Americans had a purpose for living I had not yet glimpsed in my generation, and I suspected that the snide remarks often made about war journalists—that they were self-important—likely came from a place of profound envy and longing to do something for the greater good of the world. But what power did journalists have? How often did we hurt the very people we claimed
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