Dozier: "What happened to my crew?"

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/30/iraq/main1664012.shtml



(CBS/AP) CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier is off her respirator and breathing on her own Friday morning.

Dozier remains in critical but stable condition at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where she is resting comfortably. She is able to talk and has been visiting with family and CBS colleagues. Doctors will perform additional routine procedures Friday morning.

"She is talking well, hasn't lost her sense of humor, and was disappointed that we had to meet in Landstuhl, Germany, instead of over a drink in New York City," CBS News President Sean McManus said in a message to CBS employees.

"She's sharp as a tack. Really," Dozier's father, Benjamin, told CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar on Thursday. "She knows where she is. She knows the questions to ask."

Her first question Thursday was: "What (happened to the) crew?" Her family and doctors agreed, if she asked, that she should be told what happened — that James Brolan and Paul Douglas died in the attack.

On Thursday a young American soldier gave his Purple Heart to Dozier's brother, Michael, to give to Dozier. He told Michael that he wanted Kimberly to have it because, he said, she'd suffered as much as any soldier. That Purple Heart is now beside Kimberly's bed, reports MacVicar.:(

I'm glad to read that she's lucid and she has her legs. They kept stressing head and lower body injuries.