The recent surge of violence in Iraq has put not just the lives of soldiers and civilians at risk. In the past ten days alone, four media workers have been killed in Iraq. Since the war began a year ago, a total of 23 members of the press have died there.
It was one year ago tomorrow that NBC’s David Bloom became the second American journalist to die during the war in Iraq. A few days earlier, The Atlantic Monthly’s Michael Kelly had been the first.

Boston Herald reporter Jules Crittenden had become friends with both Bloom and Kelly while he served as an embedded reporter in Iraq last spring. Crittenden was traveling with a tank company in the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division — the same company that led the taking of Baghdad a year ago this week. In this radio diary, Jules Crittenden looks back and remembers David Bloom, Michael Kelly, and the Iraqis whose deaths he witnessed firsthand:

Guests:

Jules Crittenden, reporter for Boston Herald