Can any of my lovely DU friends help me? I trying to find an article

[Sperk]

I read a few days back. I don't know if I found it on DU or one of the other sites I frequent. It was an eyewitness testimony of the fighting in Iraq written by a female reporter. She talked about traveling in the Humvees with the soldiers and all the sights, sounds and smells of war. There was one part where she talked about some dazed man walking around the street picking up body parts (yuck, I know). It was a very good piece (as in realistic-what the soldiers are going through) and I should have know to save it.

A friend wants a copy but now I can't remember where the heck I saw it. Did anyone else see it? I want to say she was a Washington Post reporter, but I couldn't find it on their web site.

[Skittles]

1. I don't recall the article

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[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I found it - it was driving me crazy

I remembered it as soon as you described it, but thought it was about Falluja, so was thrown off the scent. Here it is, and it was the WP:

Boots on the Ground

I CAN'T GET THE BOMBINGS OUT OF MY HEAD. Not just one, but the aftermath of them all. The metallic smell of blood. The stains on the roads. As if each victim was blown up individually, from the inside out, or maybe dropped from the sky. Razor wire collects flesh like torn pieces of clothing . . . I saw one police officer go mad in Baghdad recently, obsessively picking up stray pieces. I thought, maybe for burial -- but it seemed more drastic, more urgent. U.S. Army and other Iraqi police tried to stop him with force. But he yelled back, shrugging their hands off his shoulder, never losing sight of the ground, the razor wire, the pieces, quickly filling his plastic bag -- until the bag was full and he had to pile the pieces into his hands, gloved in plastic, intestines hanging through his fingers.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38111-2004Nov9.html

[Sperk]

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