Sigh

"Every reporter likes to believe that what they're seeing and feeling is unique, that it hasn't already been seen and felt a thousand times in other places, other conflicts. I try to keep the stories separate, not allow what I've seen in one country to change how I see things someplace else. It's not always easy: I set up barriers in my head, in my heart, but blood flows right through them. A corpse I see in Baghdad will remind me of a body back in Bosnia. Sometimes I can't even remember where I was or why. I just remember the moment, the look, a sudden snap of a synapse, a blink of an eye, and I'm in another conflict, another year.

Every war different, every war the same."

- Anderson Cooper (god among men), Dispatches From The Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and Survival