Journalists and their editors have been doing this far too often of late: eulogizing their lost colleagues, trying to make sense of their passing in foreign lands on dangerous soil in pursuit of the story, in pursuit of the truth.

It has become far too easy for them to be targeted because it has become far too easy for everyone to be targeted. Everyone is at risk, and we must take extraordinary care to not forget those who live in mortal fear every day.

David Gilkey understood his role in all of this. He was a truth-teller. His job was to use his skills as a journalist to keep us from forgetting the truth and hopefully, to act in order to keep