Marie Colvin was a foreign correspondent working from the UK, but present in the most violent and conflicted areas of the world. She brought to our awareness the extreme oppression suffered by world citizens in the most violent conflicts imaginable. Her calling was to bear witness to the atrocities taking place around the world, to let all of us know to the best of her ability what was going on in war-torn and oppressed regions far from the comfort of our own homes.
She wasn’t fearless. Rather, she moved forward with fear. After losing her eye in an explosion in Sri Lanka in 2001, she suffered from PTSD and perhaps from a deeper awareness of her own vulnerability. But that didn’t stop her from reporting what she witnessed in war zones around the world. She knew that she risked her life to share the realities of those who suffer, to…
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