Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't … - Philip Caputo

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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Philip Caputo

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.

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