A Quote by Geraldine Brooks

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

Geraldine Brooks

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Geraldine Brooks
Australian - Novelist
Born: September 14, 1955

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