Posted on 06/03/2006 10:25:16 AM PDT by jamese777
CBS reporter injured in Iraq given Purple Heart by wounded soldier DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer June 2, 2006 4:56 AM
BERLIN (AP) - 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.''
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Why didn't the American soldier shoot her in the head? That's what American soldiers do, right? They kill innocent people. /dripping sarcasm off
To the soldier: Bah! Kimberly wasn't injured defending anyone. Kimberly was there by her own choice. Kimberly was getting paid good money. And so on.
Did she report the war fairly, or was she a part of the anti-American propaganda left?
I hope she recovers in either case.
so, the reporter gets a purple heart given to her by a NAMELESS American soldier who earned his..yet not one word on what the soldier did to earn his..
but the reporter has HERS...
my mistake, they did name him..(I need more coffee)
All I can say for sure is that, IMO, she doesn't deserve any PH.
Nice touch by an American Soldier.
I could go this way and that way with this subject but...
Nice touch, American Soldiers have more class than MSM reporters.
Or he was just showing a little class, and maybe turning an enemy into a friend with a meaningful gesture? I'd cut him some slack, but that's just me.
Your point is well made. But these young soldiers are the guys the kids gravitate to when they arrive in neighborhoods, that work to save lives, work to ensure freedom prevails, work to bring calm and peace to a troubled land.
On the other hand, that CBS reporter likely has an agenda 180 degrees different, if she is like most other reporters.
My question is who is paying for her medical care in that Army hospital? Taxpayers or CBS? There are many fine civilian German hospitals around Frankfurt/Kaiserslautern. Civilian reporters should not be mixed with brave American heroes in a hospital ward. Many soldiers are there because of their irresponsible, treasonous reporting in the first place.
Just a touch of Grimm Bros.
A great gesture by that soldier and it was his decision to make. Evidently the soldier felt she deserved it from having previously known her in the field and she wasn't wounded by sitting at a bar in the green zone like many other reporters.
Were you at the funeral of LCpl Kim in Lilburn several weeks ago with the other Patriot Riders? I was there representing the state. I didnt get to Athens last week where the Kansas crowd did in fact show up I am told.
As compared to Kerry allegedly throwing his medals over the white house fence
One is class - the other, an ass.
You're right, it is just you.
As far as I'm concerned that kid can do whatever he damn well pleases. Unlike a John Kerry he earned the thing and he's not making up stories and then throwing the medal at the White House.
We should just thank him and that's that.
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