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CNN's truck was
…”: Janine di Giovanni,
Ghosts by Daylight
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001), 8.


And during those long
…”: Ibid., 16–17.


Martha Gellhorn once
…”: Janine di Giovanni, “When Bearing Witness Overrides a Reporter's Fear,”
Nieman Reports
, June 22, 2006.


went into black
…”:
Ghosts by Daylight
, 173.


hand-to-mouth
…”: Janine di Giovanni, interview with author.


never wanted to be
…”: Janine di Giovanni, interview with author.

Robin Wright


The Islamists are
…”: Robin Wright, ed.,
The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are
(Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2012).

Robin Wright wanted to be like
: Robin Wright, interview with author, August 21, 2012.


Maybe I'll go off
…”: Ibid.


I was the only one
…”: Ibid.


broke the story
…”: Ibid.


The things you are
…”: Ibid.


mercenary groupies
”: Murray, “Marguerite Higgins,” 231.


This reporter was
…”: Robin Wright, “Reporter Describes Rout of FNLA from Angola Town,”
Christian Science Monitor
, February 9, 1976.


a memorable week
”: Robin Wright, interview with author, August 21, 2012.


If you know enough
…”: Ibid.


All the change in
…”: Ibid.


All these events
…”: Ibid.


For many young
…”: Robin Wright, “The Pink Hijab,”
Wilson Quarterly
35, no. 3 (Summer 2011), 47–51.


A lot of big-name
…”: Robin Wright, interview with author, August 21, 2012.

She never married
: Ibid.

Third World kids
: Ibid.

“Know the world
…”: Ibid.


I tell young people
…”: Ibid.

Martha Raddatz


The one reason
…”: Martha Raddatz, “From War Zones to the White House,” speech at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, October 20, 2012, Video, 1:00,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbK_1cFf8Q
.


Bin Laden was ordered
…”: “Mission at Hand—GMA,”
www.mydaily.com/2011/05/02/mission-at-hand
.


absolutely no inkling
”: Martha Raddatz, interview with author, November 1, 2012.


I liked to read
…”: Ibid.


Before she was Martha
…”: Kevin Cullen, “Accentuate Candidates, Eliminate Moderator,”
Boston Globe
, October 13, 2012.


I remember thinking
…”: Martha Raddatz, interview with author.


US Navy warships
…”: Barbara Starr and Martha Raddatz, “Navy Reacts to Possible Terror Threat,” ABC News, June 21, 2001,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80879&page=1
.


The State Department
…”: Martha Raddatz, “Watching the Pentagon Burn: ABC's Martha Raddatz Remembers 9/11,” ABC News, September 9, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/09/watching-the-pentagon-burn-abcs-martha-raddatz-remembers-911/
.


I spent the day
…”: Ibid.


platoon pindown
”: “Martha Raddatz: ABC News White House Correspondent: Letter Written by Martha Raddatz's Daughter,”
Q&A
, C-Span, September 17, 2006,
www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1093
.


I knew 8 soldiers
…”: Ibid.


I think you take
…”: Raddatz, interview with author.


No one asks
…”: Martha Raddatz, “Martha Raddatz Portrays a Platoon Under Fire,” NPR, January 15, 2008,
www.npr.org/2008/01/15/17979692/martha-raddatz-portrays-a-platoon-under-fire
.


searingly vivid evidence
…”: Janet Maslin, “Visceral Tales from Iraq, Where Life-Changing Days Are Just the Start of Pain,”
New York Times
, March 12, 2007,
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/books/12masl.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.


I say things they
…”: Raddatz, “From War Zones to the White House.”

She is not sure she
: “Letter Written by Martha Raddatz's Daughter,” Q&A.


My mom began to cry
…”: Greta Bradlee, “Point of View,” University of California–Berkeley News,
www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/02/06_bradlee.shtml
.


My mother's own
…”: Ibid.


We've got a country
…”: Raddatz, “From War Zones to the White House.”


One of the stresses
…”: Raddatz, interview with author.


Multiple deployments
…”: “The Backstory: The Untold Military Stories,” interview with Martha Raddatz,
Washington Week
, PBS online, video, 4:46,
www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/content/backstory-untold-military-stories
.

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KERRIE LOGAN HOLLIHAN
is the author of
Rightfully Ours, Theodore Roosevelt for Kids, Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids,
and
Elizabeth I, The People's Queen,
and has written for
Boys' Life
and
Bird Watcher's Digest.

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