War correspondents are a subclade of the foreign correspondent genus. They are both elite members of the journalistic profession, at least as it used to be configured, but the war correspondent sits atop the pyramid.
He (for it was mostly men, though there were some memorable women like Kate Webb) was the equivalent of the men who tamed the West. He took risks and knew he could get killed anytime, because this happened to a lot of people he knew.
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