Kevin Sites was the man with a camera in Fallujah. I finally reached him through an email that isn’t open to public knowledge to ask what happened. He was grateful for a message not filled with condemnation.
He also told me about his latest post, an open letter to the Marines he covers:
This week I’ve even been shocked to see myself painted as some kind of anti-war activist. Anyone who has seen my reporting on television or has read the dispatches on this website is fully aware of the lengths I’ve gone to play it straight down the middle — not to become a tool of propaganda for the left or the right.
But I find myself a lightning rod for controversy in reporting what I saw occur in front of me, camera rolling.
It’s time you to have the facts from me, in my own words, about what I saw — without imposing on that Marine — guilt or innocence or anything in between. I want you to read my account and make up your own minds about whether you think what I did was right or wrong. All the other armchair analysts don’t mean a damn to me.
Go read it.
I would love to read his comments on the situation, but the link does not work.
Comment by Pat in NC — November 21, 2004 @ 9:38 pm
Sorry about the bad link. It actually was correct, but individual archive links aren’t going through to his site for some reason.
The link now goes to his blog rather than the individual post.
Comment by Bunker — November 22, 2004 @ 5:24 am
I sent him a letter of my thoughts thru his posted generic email….hope he gets it.
Comment by Wallace-Midland Texas — November 22, 2004 @ 11:03 am