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Hi, here via network! Hmm -- I'm super interested in your issue with the book, being both a grad student in journalism and one who is particularly interested in war reporting. It's been a while since I either read the book or saw the excellent HBO miniseries that came from it, though I'm hoping to revisit both in the near future. That said, we're always told that we have to think very hard about when to include ourselves in our own story, and that it's imperative that we, as journalists, don't make the story about us. His job is to understand these guys without getting (or presenting himself as) close. I'll have to think some more about this, but your reaction is really interesting to me.