Just an idealist
Even though she had been to so many conflicts, so many front-lines, she never lost her humanity and her ability to see with a new way of seeing it and to bring that humanity to all of us and I think that’s what made her so remarkable. She was such a brave, such a good reporter, but so very human even in the midst of all this inhumanity.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper reflects on his interview with journalist Marie Colvin hours before she was killed in Syria. (source)