My neighbor, Mike Elwell, accompanied correspondent Mike Cerre in the Iraq invasion, embedded in a Marine company. Their reports, featured on ABC news, won them an Emmy on September 13, 2004, for “The Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine.”

The Emmy press release described the piece as follows: “Correspondent Mike Cerre profiles one Marine company’s emotional and physical rollercoaster ride through the war with Iraq: from their pre-deployment training in California to the invasion and liberation of Baghdad to their occupation of Southern Iraq and eventual homecoming. As a former Marine officer and Vietnam vet, Cerre established a high degree of trust and personal access to the Marines, providing viewers with rich insights into the human dynamics of war.”

 

To hear the interview, click on http://www.kqed.org/pgmArchive/RD19 and then on “Brothers in Arms.”  Thu, Sep 23, 2004 -- 10:00 PM (Mike Cerre – Brothers in Arms:
Guest host Spencer Michels talks to ABC correspondent Mike Cerre and cameraman Mike Elwell about being embedded in Iraq with Marine company Fox 2/5. Guests: Mike Cerre, correspondent for ABC News, won an Emmy for his documentary “Brothers in Arms” which profiled a Marine company during the war in Iraq; Mike Elwell, cameraman, worked with Cerre on “Brothers in Arms.”)

 

To read an excerpt from the ABC Nightline presentation, click on http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/World/cerre_notebook_030325.html .