A Stupid Death in a Stupid War: Remembering Michael Kelly
Tom Scocca · 04/03/13 04:53PMTen years ago today, somewhere south of Baghdad, the editor and columnist Michael Kelly became the first journalist to die in the invasion of Iraq. His Humvee, reportedly under fire, went off the road and rolled into a canal. And there, inside some two and a half tons of the world's finest military equipment, he drowned.