Dozier Tells Her Story
"Over the years, my colleagues and I had constantly debated the risks of our jobs, but felt that they were worth taking to bring the public's attention to whatever the crisis was, wherever it was… this was the day all of our instincts let us down," she writes.
Continues Dozier: "We were filming a routine patrol led by [U.S. Army Captain James] Funkhouser, an upbeat Texan well liked by his troops. [Funkhouser was killed in the attack.] At the patrol's first stop, we got out of our Humvees to trail him down a mostly empty street. Suddenly I was slammed into blackness as the air filled with a smell like fireworks. Later I learned that a bomb-packed car, just waiting for a U.S. patrol, had been detonated as we passed. I wound up lying on the pavement, shocked into numbness. I dimly remember the popping sound of bullets—exploding ammo from a Humvee ignited by the bomb. But with both eardrums blown out, I didn't hear much else."
Read the whole thing over at Glamour. On May 29, CBS is airing a documentary called "Flashpoint: Kimberly Dozier and the Army's Fourth ID -- A Story of Bravery, Recovery and Lives Forever Changed." More on that here.