'I was on the frontline with our soldiers in Iraq. This is what I'll never forget'
In the minds of many, it was a needless, unjust invasion founded on a claim - which proved to be wrong - that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
The smell of cordite filled the air as the heavy weapons discharged their deadly munitions. In the distance I could see flashes of light as bombs dropped by the American war planes landed on their targets. From a journalistic point of view it was the biggest story I had ever covered, an historic event which I was seeing at first hand. The words I produced were shared with other news organisations as part of the pooled media arrangement, so my copy appeared in the national newspapers and on the BBC website, as well as daily reports in the M.E.N.
I noted how some of the soldiers were making life and death decisions, yet were barely out of their teens. 'Cool heads of young shoulders' was a headline in one of my many reports in the M.E.N. It would be a few more weeks before the war was over and the soldiers then took on their peace-keeping role.
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