Trish Wood

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Trish Wood is the author of WHAT WAS ASKED OF US (Little, Brown). She is an award-winning investigative reporter who has been working with veterans of the Iraq war for more than two years. She has been honored by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Science Writers Association, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the New York Film Festival.

Blog Entries by Trish Wood

Jessica Lynch Meet Justin LeHew

Posted May 2, 2007 | 12:46 PM (EST)

The most famous army private in America has now truly earned her heroic accolades but not on the battlefield. Don't get me wrong, I believe that any soldier who survives Iraq is heroic and worthy of our love and admiration, it's just that Jessica Lynch wasn't any more or less...

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Now I Know Why the Soldier Cried

Posted February 2, 2007 | 05:19 PM (EST)

When I was a young journalist I developed a professional crush on New York Times war correspondent Gloria Emerson. She was never impressed by the waging of war but rather her commitment as a journalist was to the human beings, both soldier and civilian who were ruined by it. In...

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Go Back and Ask the Grunts

Posted January 22, 2007 | 10:02 AM (EST)

A few months before he died of cancer, much-decorated Vietnam War hero, Colonel David Hackworth told me, "There is no military solution to the war. We have lost the war in Iraq." That was in September of 2004 -two and a half years before the Iraq Study Group weighed in...

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