Columbia Tribune
Reporters and photographers in Vietnam faced physical threats, but nothing like what journalists in Iraq deal with. "It's one thing to be unarmed in combat and sort of hope that the fact that it says 'press' on your flak jacket will catch you a break to the extent that a break can be caught," says the Wall Street Journal's
Michael Phillips. "But it's another thing where you're going into a situation and putting 'press' onto your flak jacket is equivalent of saying 'shoot me.' And Iraq is that place."
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NYT reporter Damien Cave writes about being Iraq with wife Diana (NYT)
