Ted Rall - To Afghanistan and Back (2002)

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Sometimes there was no fighting on the front. As any veteran will tell you, war is a lot of sitting around doing nothing punctuated by occasional bursts of wild, chaotic panic.

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Not all the war correspondents [in Afghanistan] were nervous. My wife asked a journalist covering the Khanabad front why he didn't wear a bulletproof vest. (At $1,200 each, we couldn't afford them.) "Are you kidding?" the heavyset photographer for The San Jose Mercury News replied as he wiped his brow. "It's too hot out here."

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