Soldier gives wounded CBS reporter his Purple Heart

BERLIN — A CBS reporter injured in Iraq now has a Purple Heart at her bedside at a U.S. military hospital after a young American soldier gave her his citation in a sympathetic gesture, the network said.

Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured in a car bomb 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 soldier, Capt. James A. Funkhouser Jr., and an Iraqi translator.

She was flown Tuesday to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where she was still in critical but stable condition on Friday, CBS said. Her breathing respirator has now been removed, and she has been able to talk with family and visiting CBS colleagues, the network said in a statement.
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“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.”

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1843704.php

this young soldier made. I admire both of them, Kimberly and the soldier who gave her his Purple Heart. What a pity that courageous people should be made to suffer for the insane chimp's blood-drenched fantasies.

In 2000 if you were in the armed forces there may have been some excuse if you ended up in Iraq because of 9/11

In 2004 there should have been NO DOUBT to anyone that Iraq HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

So if you VOLUNTEERED TO GO INTO THE ARMED FORCES after 9/11, knowing that you probably would be sent to Iraq, then you volunteered to KILL PEOPLE WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

not getting into college , or not being able to pay for it.

to Iraq, and that is for one purpose only, TO KILL PEOPLE

If they believe that is their only choice, I have very little compasionate

This sounds like PR to me....

Sorry.

I hope it is true, and shows a touching act of kindness amidst the horror of war.

he can attend their convention and they will give him a purple heart bandaid.

thing I think of when I see "Purple Heart"..the repukes at that New York convention should be ostracized for making fun of the honored "Purple Heart" given to Soldiers for being wounded in time of war.

They were stuck with an AWOLer so they make up shit about Kerry without repercussions.

It was truly a disgrace to all veterans, wounded or not.

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