'The Embed War'

" Veterans day this week Americans across our nation honoring those who served in our troops around the world still in uniform and it harms way. And where our troops go so do reporters taking risks to bring the stories home some recognizable faces some not so famous. These days Fox News is reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan. Our -- Melanie Wilkes as this from back."

" Tens of thousands of investors have spent years far from home in Iraq and Afghanistan. In both cases fighting the enemy while trying to train in new army supported new government. And engage citizens from cultures so different from our own. Over the last four years I spent time in Iraq trying to cover the soldiers' stories. In 2006 and 2007. As Iraq suffered through hundreds of bombings in thousands -- Destruction. Crucial for the world to -- but also crucial to see what was being done to stop it."

" At fox we made the decision to leave our Baghdad Bureau as much as possible to embed -- US troops and find out what they were doing firsthand. Many journalists will remember this as the -- war when the Pentagon embrace the idea. Of allowing reporters to live side by side with soldiers."

" We have faced some of the same dangers patrolling with US troops in Mosul when a suicide bomber struck. And writing in -- military convoy when a roadside bomb exploded. Killing an Iraqi farmer in eastern Baghdad. -- has allowed our crews to document soldiers daily emissions from the first ends of the invasion and -- and raids and patrols. And the less glamorous -- of training -- new Iraqi Army and tedious meetings with tribal leaders we've done everywhere with the troops into the -- factories into a dusty -- market in the desert and to a combination. Like when security was tight."

" The downsides to embedding reporters need to work even harder to stay objective when they're actually living with the soldiers there covering. Also staying -- one base tends to -- a snapshot of only one area."

" That's why it's important to talk with commanders to get a sense of the larger picture. And it's critical to hear from Iraqi citizens whose lives will be affected for years to come. -- choices in the coming weeks in Baghdad room. And that's a -- on you."