Horrible horrible news to read my incredibly brave and talented friend Kimberly Dozier has been critically injured in Iraq and two of her crew killed. I am really wishing her to pull through. What is there to say about the two of her crew killed, I am terribly terribly sorry. Kimberly comes from a military family, she speaks fluent Arabic and Hebrew, she has lived for years in the Middle East and she lives to tell this story. For all her singlemindedness, she has always been an incredibly sweet and generous and utterly unpretentious person, never spoiled by all the nonsense that goes on in TV news. I don't think anything could have stopped her from going to Iraq and being there to tell this story, her whole personal history and education and career prepared her for being uniquely well placed to do just that. My deepest best wishes for her full recovery, and to her family in Baltimore on what has got to be an anxious Memorial Day, my thoughts are with you.

Posted by Laura at May 29, 2006 10:27 AM