Myrtle Beach Sun News
"I believe it shows the vast spectrum of human nature," says
Kimberly Johnson, a USA Today freelancer who writes the
"Dispatches from Iraq" blog. "To me, there's no story that's more compelling than what comes out of a war."
Jim Michaels, a USAT editor, calls Johnson "a very, very gutsy journalist embedded with Marines and soldiers in some of the toughest parts of Iraq. ... We call her our digital Ernie Pyle."