ABOUT THE JOURNALISTS
Columnist Bill Nemitz, above left, has worked as a journalist in Maine since 1977, when he became a reporter for the Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville after graduating from the University of Massachusetts.
He moved to Portland in 1983, working first as a reporter for the Evening Express and later as city editor and assistant managing editor/sports for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Nemitz began writing his thrice-weekly column for the newspaper in 1995. In 2004, he was embedded twice with the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion in Mosul, Iraq.
Nemitz is a past president of the Maine Press Association and has taught journalism part time at Saint Joseph's College in Standish. He lives in Buxton with his wife, Andrea Nemitz. They have five children.
Shawn Patrick Ouellette, above right, joined the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as a staff photographer in 2002.
Since that time, he has covered the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVIII, the return from Iraq of the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Battalion at Fort Drum, N.Y., and the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.
Previously, he was a staff photographer for the Journal Tribune in Biddeford from 1993 to 1997 and chief photographer there from 1997 to 2002. He lives in Saco with his wife and two daughters.
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I F*&#$%g hate liberal media.....(banging head on desk)....report abuse
Well, Dave, bang away. Maybe you will knock some sense in there. Go turn on druggie Rush, or Faux News. They may be more to your liking.
Good story. I am sure there are thousands of other stories just like it. Nice counterpoint to a video I saw a couple of months ago of some soldiers taunting a young boy running behind a truck with soldiers in the back. They were holding out some bottled water and laughing at the young boy running for several minutes, hard, in hopes of getting the bottle. The video was clear enough to see the determination, and defiance, on his face. When they finally threw the bottle another kid standing by reached down and claimed it. The kid who ran several blocks behind the truck was left with nothing. Very sad.
It is nice to see these Americans showing the same human compassion they would expect if their child was injured.
After the Johns Hopkins/Lancet/MIT study of last October reliably estimating 655,000 deaths that would not have occurred except for our invasion, we Americans ought to be ashamed and try to do everything possible to reverse the misery we have caused in Iraq. At the rate of death our invasion spawned, it will not be very long before the deaths attributable to our invasion with reach a million. This small glimmer of compassion is a hopeful sign we can make amends.report abuse
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