Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Baghdad Press Corps
After four years, I’m standing in a room with the finest press corps in the world. After four years – they’re throwing ME a party.
Simply stunning!
Wish we had more first hand looks inside how the press operates ...
Mr. Perry,
Your work speaks for itself. You better go back there - or the coverage will suffer. For America, you better go back.
Thanks for this beautiful and moving post, Mr. Perry! It left me almost speechless. I am just able to say that you cannot imagine how much we admire and respect what you are ALL doing there.
Please, stay all safe! We need so much your reports! Delphine, Paris, France.
when i was reading a letter from a US Soldier in Iraq i think he is Time Predmore .Tim Predmore echoes these feelings in the concluding paragraph of his letter: “How many more must die? How many more tears must be shed before America awakens and demands the return of the men and women whose job it is to protect them rather than their leader’s interest?”
Fantastic Blog story to read esply the lines where you said after four years going "home" ... truly this tells us the mind of a person who has stayed counting deaths and i think its a very sick feeling... even you come home permanently i think you require the help of counsellors who have to sork woth you atleast a year or two..and also its very painful to read and think what goes on your mind Cal Perry .. truly .. i was thinking what way i can help you so that you come out of this feeling ... i am sorry Cal i had no answer..
This was deeply moving to read.
Thank you for the work that you've done and the sacrifices you've made to keep us informed. Despite how it might seem, there are many of us still out here that are passionately focused on Iraq. Though election coverage seems to have eclipsed almost everything else, there are few stories as important as Iraq. Again, I am very grateful and I wish you good luck.
Mr. Perry,
I will only say what everyone has above: you are a true hero for "freedom of the press." CNN has always been a step above: and since "Combat Hospital" you have set the example. I can only say what you have: I hope you will be back: for the "echo of silence" is not what America needs right now.
Phenominal:
You are a war journalist of the finest state. Like those who have come before you: your work speaks for itself. Like the O'Brian's ... the the Michael Heer's: you are one for the books. We'll see you on the "flip side" - that's right ... I'm a US solider ... and I'll see you on the other side!. 3-3 ACR (Mosul)
Thank you for this and thank you for the work you do. You will always carry Iraq with you, but when this is all over, I hope you find the peace to make your way home--both in mind and body.
Your post was a great relief to me that journalists still care about what is happening in the sandbox. I wish our country was paying as close attention. If no one else listens, you must know that each of the parents of each of our military personnel serving, both home and abroad, are reading every word you ladies and gentlemen of the press are writing. Please try to remember where home is for your own sake. Stay safe and come home when the job is done.
Alf Shukr wa Shukr or A thousand and one thanks, both to you and to those you choose not to name, especially the Iraqis whose contribution goes too often unnoticed.
You speak of sacrifice and service and brotherhood - its a glimpse into a world I never hope to see, but which I hope to understand a little, if only for my friends in Iraq who wonder, like you, "What is home?" |
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