Michael Hastings: The Hurt Locker, and What it Means to be ...

I read Hedges book at age 22, when I was working as a junior editor and reporter in the office of a major newsmagazine, six months before the invasion of Iraq. Despite its overwhelmingly anti-war message, despite its bitter and powerful descriptions of ... The news of Pyle's death reached Capa in Europe, with a simple, chilling line, spoken in a hotel room of a bombed out city where the press corps was sleeping. "Ernie got it." The correspondents proceeded to get drunk. ...