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Quote from Stargate (Bregman about Krisofsky)
BREGMAN: You know ... I once did a piece on this war photographer, his name's Martin Kristofsky.
For six months he was with a unit in Vietnam and the day before he was schedule to leave.
The day before ... he's out with the unit and it was just a routine patrol or so they thought
but suddenly, the Lieutenant pulled him down and Kristophsky hadn't intended to take a picture
at that moment but his hands were on the camera and he hit the ground so hard that it just went
off. The picture captured the Lieutenant getting shot in the head and Kristophsky said to me,
"Well that bullet would of hit me, should of hit me." And he never showed that picture to anyone.
Not for 25 years, but 25 years later he got up one morning and he looked at that picture and he
saw something that wasn't horrific and he decided to tell the story because he realized that he
hadn't accidentally taken a picture of a man dying. It was of a man saving his life. The picture
I'm making, that I'm trying to make is about what you people do every single day. Under extreme
circumstances that no one can even imagine and I don't know what happened out there, I'm sorry
about whatever it was and if you did tape something of it ... that's not gonna change what
happened. What it will change is how you feel about it.
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