Posted on 06/02/2006 6:09:21 AM PDT by World_Events
By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
BERLIN - Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter wounded by a car bomb in Iraq, now has a Purple Heart at her bedside in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after a young American soldier gave her his medal, the network said.
Dozier, 39, was seriously injured in a blast Monday while covering a story on Memorial Day in Iraq. Her camera crew, Britons Paul Douglas and James Brolan, were killed in the attack, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator.
Dozier, who was flown Tuesday to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, remained in critical but stable condition Friday, CBS said. Her breathing respirator has been removed, and she has been able to talk with family and visiting CBS colleagues, the network said in a statement.
She suffered head and lower body injuries in the blast, and her family told CBS she was going to need rods in her legs.
Doctors were performing "routine" procedures on Friday, CBS said.
On Thursday, CBS said an American soldier who had been awarded the Purple Heart medal for combat injuries made a special visit to the hospital to see Dozier.
"A young American soldier came up to Kimberly's brother Michael and told him that he had met Kimberly in Iraq two years ago after he had been wounded with shrapnel in his arm," CBS said without identifying the soldier. "The soldier had his Purple Heart with him, and he told Michael that he'd like Kimberly to have it because, he said, she's suffered as much as any soldier. That Purple Heart is now beside Kimberly's bed."
Dozier's family and boyfriend arrived Wednesday to be with her as she is treated in Germany.
"When I walked into the room and saw her, it really impacted what that was all about and how closely we came to maybe losing her," her mother, Dorothy, told CBS. "To hold her hand and have her little thumb wiggle so that she knew us, I'm just delighted with the improvement in the time we've been here."
Landstuhl has not given a timeline for Dozier's treatment, but patients injured in Iraq are commonly stabilized at Landstuhl, in southern Germany, for three to four days before being flown to the U.S. for further care.
That would mean she would likely be returning home sometime this weekend
Our troops are better to the reporters than the reporters are to our troops.
Very true.
So true. They'd rather tell stories of how our soldiers killed civilians and put whiney protestors of dead soldiers on the front page than tell a story about one giving a PH medal away or a proud parent of a dead soldier supporting the troops. I guarantee there are more heroic stories than there are negative ones, but the MSM will never show it.
Good Man
Indeed.
Thank you God for the few real men left in this country.
Bah. Rumsfeld and Rove staged this to take the heat off the Haditha massacre. [leftism=OFF]
Truer words were never spoken.
Chivalry is NOT dead.
I wonder if CBS will report this.
I'm just shocked that the AP did.
Their goal is seed depression in the mind of Americans, to side with the enemy, to denigrate and denounce our actions in defense of our lives and our country.
They were embedded reporters. Well they're embedded now. War is an ugly, vicious and necessary function to remove evil. People get hurt. People die. Just ask the victims who voluntarily jumped to their death from the World Trade Center.
So, when do we learn the name of the soldier who was killed?
I'm just shocked that the AP did.
LOL..
Someone's in deep doo-doo no doubt.
Amen, brother!
That's been obvious since the birth of our Nation.
What a great guy that soldier is!
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