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05-03-2005, 09:31 AM
May 3, 2005
By Glenn Marzano
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
One thing that's been lost by the media during the War on Terror in Iraq is the reporting of the good news and deeds Marines and soldiers. The old saying that if it bleeds it leads has held true with regard to news coming out here.
I'm an embedded photographer with the Marines at Camp Fallujah. Something happened here recently that would probably have gone unnoticed if it were not by chance that I'm here. The events I'm writing about happened on a hot April night in Iraq and touched the lives of everyone involved, most especially an infant Iraqi girl.
As a photojournalist it seems out of place for me to be writing, especially since I was not able to photograph the event I'm about to describe although I've been able to obtain a couple images taken that night by a Navy corpsman. An image is worth a 1,000 words – no matter who was behind the camera.
In the early morning of April 21, an explosion occurred at the Jordanian Hospital in Fallujah. The cause of the explosion remains unclear. Preliminary reports were that it was a motor shell from insurgents. There have also been reports there was an electrical fire that touched off an explosion of oxygen tanks. Nonetheless, 14 out of 17 trailers at the hospital were lost. This normally would have been a job for the Iraqi fire department. But confusion over the curfew rules led the firemen to choose not to respond to the fire. This is when the Marines took action.
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By Glenn Marzano
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
One thing that's been lost by the media during the War on Terror in Iraq is the reporting of the good news and deeds Marines and soldiers. The old saying that if it bleeds it leads has held true with regard to news coming out here.
I'm an embedded photographer with the Marines at Camp Fallujah. Something happened here recently that would probably have gone unnoticed if it were not by chance that I'm here. The events I'm writing about happened on a hot April night in Iraq and touched the lives of everyone involved, most especially an infant Iraqi girl.
As a photojournalist it seems out of place for me to be writing, especially since I was not able to photograph the event I'm about to describe although I've been able to obtain a couple images taken that night by a Navy corpsman. An image is worth a 1,000 words – no matter who was behind the camera.
In the early morning of April 21, an explosion occurred at the Jordanian Hospital in Fallujah. The cause of the explosion remains unclear. Preliminary reports were that it was a motor shell from insurgents. There have also been reports there was an electrical fire that touched off an explosion of oxygen tanks. Nonetheless, 14 out of 17 trailers at the hospital were lost. This normally would have been a job for the Iraqi fire department. But confusion over the curfew rules led the firemen to choose not to respond to the fire. This is when the Marines took action.
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