John Laurence knows a lot about war zones. He cut his teeth as a CBS correspondent with Charlie Company in the jungles of the Vietnam War. For three decades he kept his stories of soldiers, sanity and personal survival private, then last year released them in his critically acclaimed memoir: “The Cat From Hue.”
That experience alone might have been enough for one man. But not for Laurence. More than thirty years later, at the age of 63, he goes back to the battlefield. This time with a different Charlie Company, and in a different war zone: Iraq. Embedded with the 101st Airborne Division, Laurence traveled with the troops from a base in Kuwait to the city of Najaf to the streets of Baghdad.
Guests:
Jack Laurence, Embedded with the 101st Airborne Division — Laurence covered the war in Iraq for Esquire Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review and National Public Radio. He is the author of “The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story.” The book recently won the Cornelius Ryan Award of the Overseas Press Club of America for best non-fiction book on international affairs.