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Article: SARAJEVO CORRESPONDENT'S TOUGHEST ASSIGNMENT: HIMSELF
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2005
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He's on a C-130 transport plane, about to descend from the clouds
straight into hell: the besieged city of Sarajevo, ripped to shreds
by genocidal war.
But for John Falk, exhilaration is more potent than fear. Danger
and bloodshed are the medicine he seeks. Besides, he's fashioned
himself as a war correspondent, and this is what war correspondents
do.
This opening scene of Falk's triumphant memoir, "Hello to All
That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace," gives a glimpse of how far
he went to wrest his life back from depression, after spending much
of the previous decade in a fog.