![]() He and two other Marines have just been hit by shrapnel, with Britt's injuries the most serious. Burness Britt bleeds profusely from his neck. ![]() Inside the medevac helicopter in Afghanistan, U.S. This is what she wrote about it two days before Christmas 2011 - six months after the attack. One of her bosses said "she truly believed in the need to bear witness." In years of reporting from war zones, the story that most haunted her was one about a Marine who was grievously wounded by a IED in Afghanistan in June 2011. In 2005, she was part of the AP team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Iraq, and she was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. Editor's note: Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photojournalist, was shot and killed by an Afghan police officer earlier this month while on assignment for the Associated Press.
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