Kipling has been interviewing soldiers from Jack's regiment of Irish Guards.

He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan, where, among other things, he interviewed Soviet soldiers captured by the Afghans.

But almost every time I interviewed soldiers belatedly getting medals for Vietnam, they said, to a man, that they had done nothing heroic.

To conduct research for his plots, he has shadowed homicide detectives and gang cops, and interviewed soldiers, among other things.

So reporters are herded into pools, allowed to interview soldiers only with escorts.

One hero of the intelligence effort was Art Morimitsu, now 83, who interviewed wounded Japanese soldiers.

I've interviewed several soldiers and marines who have suffered grave wounds in Iraq, including the loss of limbs.

She interviewed numerous wounded British soldiers and found out just how poorly the Allied defense had gone.

Natima Lang did not particularly enjoy these assignments, interviewing soldiers as they arrived home from the conflict along the border territories.

The delegation interviewed soldiers so they could tell, in their own words, the successes in the fight against terrorism.