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LIGHTER THAN AYRES

I just finished reading War Reporting for Cowards.

The LA Bureau Chief (it is a one man 'bureau') gets assigned as an 'embed' in Iraq.

Ill equipped in every respect, the ramp-up and final tour of this hapless recruit is written in a jaunty and self-deprecatory way that makes it a fast and amusing read.

In addition to the war experience, this guy has the distinction of also living and being blocks from 9-11 ground zero when the planes hit and to be one cubicle away from the anthrax letters recieved at the NY Post.

This disastrous trifecta is astonishing and provides dramatic backstory to the eventual Iraq tour.

I had a good time reading it and I have no pictures of Ayres but if you go to the link at Amazon and enlarge the cover you will see a thousand words just in this guy's nerdy being.