Aveva raccontato la guerra in Vietnam e poi la Cambogia, le Filippine, l’Iraq del 1991 e ancora molti altri conflitti in Asia per trentacinque anni. Era Kate Webb. Da Women have war stories of their own:
Kate Webb, a 23-year-old copy editor in Australia, went to Saigon on a one-way ticket, with precious little cash and no job lined up. As a woman, the only work she could get at first was writing soft profiles of American soldiers for their hometown papers.
When Webb made it into the field, the men paid her lots of attention while things were quiet. They called her “high pockets” in honor of the way her fatigue shirt fit. But when the shooting started, it was a different story. One night in a hole during a mortar barrage, she overheard one soldier ask, “I wonder what happened to that lady reporter?”
“I’m down here,” she yelped.
Most women covering the war felt the real reason the military didn’t want them in combat had little to do with their vulnerability under fire. It was the distraction they might cause.
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