DVD Excerpt: Introduction    DVD Excerpt: Family Tragedy BUY THE BOOK AND DVD We saw much but we did not see it all. No matter how compelling their pictures or accounts, reporters cannot hope to translate the full experience of war for those at home. In the heat and glare of battle, there is not always ample time for reflection on just what it all means, how the images that rush past us join the broader, less readily perceived stream of world events. Wartime journalism inevitably confronts a paradox: Television news can provide unrivaled immediacy but can be less successful at supplying the sort of context and depth that only the written word can convey. This book and DVD have been put together with this very much in mind. Between these covers and on this disc are the reports of CBS correspondents, with emphasis on those who chronicled frontline battlefield experiences. Journalists are fond of saying that they provide "a first draft of history," and indeed, in many ways they do. But by definition most first drafts are incomplete and - let's face it - sometimes misleading or otherwise wrong. In compiling a narrative from a variety of first drafts of this war's history, we have no illusions. This is not, and cannot be, anything close to a definitive history of the war in Iraq. At best, it is a collection of written and visual snapshots that future historians may want to peruse as source material. And one that you may want to read, watch, consider, and reflect upon as a multifaceted view of a war that riveted the world's attention in the spring of 2003. - From the introduction by Dan Rather