What I want to be when I grow up

When you are a kid you keep changing your mind about what you want to do or what you want to be when you grow up. I keep saying I want to be: police officer, firefighter, actuary, business owner, Supervisor of Elections... {these are all occupations that I have said I'd like to be in the last year}

Well, after last night's moving tribute to War Correspondent Marie Colvin I heard on the BBC World Service; I'd like to add that to my list of things I'd like to be. These people go in and out of dangerous places like spies, putting their lives on the line to tell the stories of the soldier, the victim, the "collateral damage", the massacred - regular people: women, men, boys, girls, babies caught in the cross-fire or simply target of the senseless of war. Seeing death and despair all around them and reporting it.

Many of the people interviews mentioned Marie Colvin's last article found in The Sunday Times (19 February 2012) being one of her best ever, here is the hear breaking and moving account from Homs, Syria http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/news/article874796.ece