 Wysłany: Czw 12:32, 14 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: How I almost lost my marriage in a war zone |
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| How I almost lost my marriage in a war zone
We were based in Prague in 2004 when our older son, Malcolm, then 5, started to put into words the low-grade anxiety we were all living with then. As I walked him to kindergarten one morning, he pointed to a huge muddy hole freshly dug by Rubber Bands a gas or electrical company."Mama," he asked, "is this the spider hole where they found Saddam Hussein?" At the time, my husband, Ian Fisher, was a war correspondent for the New York Times, and Prague was a place he would come to visit and do his laundry rather than live. His life was in Iraq, sometimes Afghanistan,Coal Processing, Gaza, Macedonia, Congo and Somalia. Pretty much anyplace people would run from, he would run toward. After four contractors were killed in Fallujah -- the real beginning of the insurgency in Iraq -- he left Rubber Bands our vacation in Egypt early to go report the story despite journalists being increasingly targeted by kidnappers. Not long after Danny Pearl was beheaded, he went on assignment to Pakistan. Meanwhile, I lived with the constant fear that something bad would happen to Ian, a gnawing feeling that this was not a normal way to live. I asked myself the same questions: What made Ian risk his life repeatedly to get a story? Was it an addiction to danger? Was it the need to tell the truth no matter the circumstance? Was it bravado, fun, ego gone mad, like Col. Kurtz, gone into the jungle and unable to return? That didn't jibe with Ian, the gentle homebody who loved being with the kids and me.But Ian was gone for long stretches, up to nine months in one year, and he was missing chunks of Rubber Bands our children's childhood. The day Malcolm took off riding a bicycle without needing his daddy to hold on to the back of the seat, Ian was incredulous."Malcolm, where did you learn to do that?" he asked."From TV," Malcolm yelled proudly as he flew past.Ian laughed, but he was crestfallen, his role as dad supplanted by the small screen. Topics related articles： LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Huanglong Middle Temple Endeavour pushing on for April 19 |
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