Michael Weisskopf never intended to become part of his own story. The fifty-seven-year-old senior correspondent for Time magazine was in Iraq in December 2003 on a coveted assignmentto profile the American soldier chosen as Times Person of the Year. For three weeks, Weisskopf was embedded with a platoon of the legendary 1st Armored Division, which […]
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