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Introduction: Scott Anderson's Triage |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 428 Words, 2,627 Characters |
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In journalism, combat reporters and photographers are a breed apart. Chasing war around the globe, these voyeurs of its horrors eventually become alienated loners--casualties who are as numbed and scarred as the combatants themselves.
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...events that continue to haunt him. The excerpt that follows recounts one of these therapy sessions.
In a commentary, writer and veteran Pat Hoy describes how Anderson penetrates his characters' tormented consciences as they wrestle with postcombat trauma, hampered by psychic walls of secrecy, denial, and guilt. He questions the nature of heroism and makes us ask who are war's real heroes.
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