I've always found Michael's reporting to be a clear 'no bull' approach
to what is happening on the ground, and though it's clear from the
article it's taken a toll on him, I'd like to believe that others would
make the same journalistic choices he did, to make his style of reporting
the norm.
Ware: "I Don't Know How To Come Home"
In a 2,500-word enlightening, and ultimately haunting, profile of CNN's Michael Ware, Men's Journal's Greg Veis gives readers a look at what the horror's of war can do to a journalist on the frontlines.
"I am not the same fucking person," Ware tells Veis. "I am not the same person. I don't know how to come home."
But he is now. And the self-described "war dog" is adjusting back to civilian life. Veis describes a video Ware shot after he volunteered to accompany the unit he was covering on a "terrifying," pitch black, raid against insurgents in Fallujah.
The staff sergeant on that raid, David Bellavia, regards Ware as one of the Marines' own. "I can't stand the media, but I would go through hell with a bucket of gasoline for Michael Ware," he says. "He goes through all the things we go through — 55 cigs a day, no sleep. And if we were allowed to drink, we'd drink as much as he does. When you look at him, you look into vacant eyes. He looks like my military friends do. He's seen enough shit."
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