Remembering NPR journalist David Gilkey, who died in Afghanistan 10 years ago

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It's been exactly a decade since award-winning NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and NPR interpreter Zaihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan — the only NPR staff ever killed in the line of duty.

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