Yet Dozier, 39, knew Iraq was increasingly dangerous, and on Memorial Day the horror of war hit home. A car bomb blew up yards from where she and her crew—traveling with U.S. troops in Baghdad—had stepped out of their Humvee to interview soldiers. The blast killed CBS soundman James Brolan, 42, and cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, as well as a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter. It left Dozier with critical injuries to her head and legs. For a while "she didn't have a heartbeat," said CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer. "She was going down."
Doctors stabilized Dozier, and after surgery she was moved to a U.S. military hospital in Germany (her parents and boyfriend flew there to be with her). At press time her doctors were optimistic she would recover. A Baltimore native who lives in Jerusalem, Dozier got her start freelancing in the Middle East. When the Iraq war broke out, she insisted on going. The blast that injured ABC's Bob Woodruff in Iraq in January (he is still undergoing rehab) "affected her," says a friend, but not enough to keep her from the job she loved. "If you want to tell their story," Dozier wrote in a recent article about reporting on soldiers, "you have to take their risks."
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