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On with us for the first time is the author of Blindsided

by the Taliban, A Journalist Story of War, Trauma, Love and Loss,

which is out on Skyhorse Publishing, and that is Carmen Gentile.

Am I saying that right by the way?

Carmen Gentile?

That's exactly how I say, Gentile.

Perfect.

You know, whose right eye was shattered and went blind while embedded with the Army in 2010 as a journalist

Thanks for coming on with us and I think the first thing to get into before we get into the story of that day in September on 2010

would just be your history as a journalist and how you wound up there in the first place.

Oh you know I never really had a clearly calculated course for my

career. I started out reporting in the late 90s I was living in Cairo. I had studied Arabic in

college and had really nothing going on in my life other than than

bartending and a professor had said to me, my Arabic professor said, why don't you go to Cairo and

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