>> i remember everly single steps. we could be shot. >> what were they going to do, send you to vietnam. >> a special tribute to marie colvin who was killed this week. this. from america's news headquarters i'm claudia cowen. syrians voting today in a referendum on a new constitution. the leaders of several western nations calling the vote a sham by the president to justify what he is doing to syrian citizens who don't support his

a deal. as the voting goes on so does the military crackdown on the opposition. at least 29 people coaled in shelling attacks today. -- killed in shelling attacks today. secretary of state h hillary clinton advising those still loyal to assad to reconsider their choice. >> i want to reiterate my message to those syrians who still survivor support assad, r you support the regime's campaign of violence against your brothers and sisters the more it will stain your honor. >> days of rage in afghanistan over the burning of copies of the muslim holy book at a u.s. air base. nato and president obama saying the koran burnings were unintentional. the latest violence as our troops are now being targeted more than ever and angry mobs lobbing grenades at a base in the north. he is he venice americans were wounded.

-- 7 americans were founded. a federal judge has delayed a trial on the worst oil spill in the nation's history. the judge noting there has been some progress in settlement talks. analysts expect the spill could cost bp up to $30 billion in damages. and for the first time in its 54 year history the daytona 500 was postponed and moved to a different day because of bad weather. in florida, disappointed drivers and fans watched the rain keep falling. drivers hope to race in the nascar event on monday. you're watching fox news. this is "war stories." they are eyewitnesses to the worst and best of man kind.

they make their deadlines on the battlefield. they are correspondents. never been an easy job and it you will learn the stories behind these pulitzer prize winning photographs. a picture may be worth a thousand words but it doesn't tell you everything. you will hear from rupert murdoch and how his father are went up against a general to save the lives of countrymen in the trenches of world war i. come along for a glimpse of combat journalism. what some have called the first draft of history. war respondents have to be able

to -- corresponders have to be able to deal with absolutely anything. >> they were so close. >> the truth comes out in wars. there is so many witnesses. >> sometimes you just feel like it is too much and just feel like closing your notebook. >> over all of the wars that you have written about which one was most accurately reported at it happened? >> i would have to say none of them. >> phillip knightly is a journalist and author. william howard russell. he was the first civilian sent to the front. before then generals reported their own wars. >> this was fought in a part of eastern europe now called the ukraine. it began in 1853 over control of holy sites in jerusalem and nazareth and pitted six

countries against russia. the times of london sent their reporter, william howard russell to the front. >> we have a tremendous treasure of documents relating to russell's career. 50 years of his personal diary. >> the archives at the times of london. it has been in print for over 280 years and in 1981 was purchased by news corps which also knowns fox news. >> it became a legend basically for his style of writing. he attached great importance to the whole concept of descriptive writing vividness. >> he was 34 when traveled to the war. and this his first diary entry in the field in 1854 he lists the days and times that mail left for london. the story only mattered if he could get it back to his newspaper a journey of over 1500-miles. >> took about three weeks to get back t to london. there was no immediacy.

>> a british soldier serving was three times more likely to die of disease than at the hands of the enemy. cholera and dysenterry savegeed the ranks. his frontline reporting inspired florence nightingale to improve medical conditions in the field. russell's words also toured the charge of the british light horse brigade. 700 men charged directly into a wall of ruptured cannon fire. it was hell on horseback. russell described it this way. >> the light was marked by instant gaps in the ranks. by dead men and horses. flying wounded or riderless across the plain. >> the governor of the day said wait a minute. right from the beginning we get the dilemma that he faced there and the dilemma facing war correspondents since.

whose side are you on? >> a question asked of reporters when they write something that generals or politicians don't like. >> i was black listed by saddam in 1986. >> marie colvin grew up outside of new york city. she thought she was going to be a marine biologist. but a stint with a college newspaper changed her mind. at the age of 30 she got her first taste of bang bang a nickname some reporters have for combat. at the time, i was the coordinator for the u.s. government's counter terrorism effort and heavily involved in planning the operation. >> did you think at the time that you knew where he was? >> we don't we talk about this afterwards when the tape is not on. >> he wasn't in the tent. >> we know that.

>> deadlines. the term was somehow lifted from the civil war. prisoners of war were corralled into groups and told if they crossed a line they would be shot. for correspondents it is a line in time that keeps getting closer and closer. >> you used to go off for weeks on end. you had a lot of time actually think about what was happening. >> kristina lamb like marie colvin writes for the sunday times of london. it is also owned by news corps. women have been covering wars sips the 1930s but even today they are rare birds in a traditionally male world. >> we they think we tend to not report so much on the actual bank -bank but actually go behind the lines more to see how people actually are carrying on their lives. >> when the soviets invaded afghanistan in 1979, it became another bloody chapter in a country torn apart by war for

nearly 200 years. >> i didn't really think about it. just announce i was going and quickly went. >> an inexperienced 21-year-old kristina left england for the brutal reality of come pat. >> the communist air force is bombing direct and one woman in particular pulled me over to her little girl and her stomach was all hanging out. and i'm sorry, i got to get the war. that is the ugliest thing ister ever done and hope i never do anything like that again. >> does a war respondent have a particular obligation to expose errors? >> absolutely. if you love soldiers you going to come down like a ton of bricks on any one who is unnecessarily risking their life. >> joe galloway was just 23 when began the first of his

four tours in vietnam for upi. in 1965 he found himself in the middle of the vietnam war first major battle in the central highlands. with lieutenant general hal moore he documented the fight in their book we were soldiers once and young. since vietnam galloway has stayed close to the battlefield, heading back to war over a half dozen times. >> the story is always the same. the absolute raw edge of humanity and this is what you are trying to capture. and there is no other way to do that than go with them. >> go with them. an adage that dates to the first war correspondent william howard russell. after the war he found himself on the way to america but this time he was far from alone. >> doug: the reason for the

explosion was the telegraph. people could read about what happened yesterday and newspapers realized there was an enormous hunger out there. >> war sells. during the civil war, 6 h hundred reporters converged on the carnage. one paper put 63 men in the field and spent almost a million dollars and those were 1860s dollars. matthew brady captured the agony of the civil war and sold his pictures directly to an eager public starved for information. photographs didn't become a regular fixture in newspapers until after 1880. but when they did, front page photographs like this changed war reporting forever. >> he went for his pistol and as he raised the pistol up i raised my camera and took a picture. >> when "war stories" returns, rupert murdoch describes how his father exposed the lies of a world war i general. the employee of the month is...

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>> oliver: in the years following the american civil war reporters flocked to the world's conflicts. the spanish american war began in 1898 with full press there and front page support. headline stories made heros out of teddy roosevelt and the exploits of his rough you riders and gave rise to one of journalism's most notorious quotes. >> william randolph hears hearn sent the sketch artist and said send me pictures of the war and reporter happened to arrive at a team when not much was happening and hearst said you you fur you initial the pictures and i will furnish the war. >> this was called yellow because of the intense rivalry between hearst and publisher

joseph pulitzer. they clashed over this popular cartoon and one of its characters the yellow kid. they became known as the yellow kids and their sensational headlines and exaggerated stories became yellow as well. >> just had to be a war story, tru or false, it didn't matter. >> world war i began as the people's war with dreams of honor and glory. but it ended with a stalemate of trenched war fare and unparalleled death and suffering. to muster enough men to fight britain had to turn to its empire. over 400,000 from new zealand and australia joined up and shipped out for europe's war. >> the cream of what was a very young nation in those days, australia. >> oliver: over 60,000 of the troops traveled 9,000 miles ending up here on the steep and rocky cliffs of the gallipoli

peninsula in turkey. april 1915. the boys land with their british counter parts under the command of general sir, ian hamilton. his battle plan relies on a quick defeat of the turks and opening a supply line to russia. what was being reported in the australian press for the positions. >> things were going well. weren't admitting to any major defeats when in fact it was a slaughterhouse. >> rupert murdoch is the chairman of news corps. in 1950 his father went to gallipoli to investigate problems of pay and mail for the troops. >> he was shocked by what he saw. shocked by the british generals who were in charge of the whole thing, ordering suicidal attacks. >> the general's staff wasn't in grave danger. >> no, they were out on their ships drinking their gin and tonics.

and nobody wrote about it. you weren't allowed to because you could only get there if the commander gave you permission and you had to submit everything to sensors. >> oliver: thousands of young men charged head long into a wall of enemy fire. the attacks gained little ground. even so they went over the top again and again. keith murdoch and another reporter set out to tell the truth. >> in fact, my father's idea that his partner would write the letter together. we will convince to get word through to the politica politts who were not getting the truth. >> oliver: keith murdoch carried the letter as far as the french port o. >> he is confronted by the british government who seizes the letter and a at that point your dad reconstructs the letter. >> to a large extent.

>> oliver: news didn't make it immediately into the newspapers. >> this was not war reporting to the public. tectechnically it was a breachf the censorship rules. >> they printed it in the cabinet paper in britain. had a special meeting, the war cabinet which was held in the recall of general hamilton and an evacuation three months lated. >> oliver: the sons of new zee land and australlia suffered over 30,000 casualties on the peninsula. the battle took over 120,000 lives. strict censorship meant little was reported at the time. 65 million men were called to arms. 8 million were killed. still, gallipoli and the willingness of two journalists

to report the truth makes a powerful argument for war reporting. >> did you have a chance to talk to your dad how he felt about perhaps saving thousands of lives as a consequence of what he did? >> i remember i guess it was 30 years later after the event he was telling me how he was still heavily criticized in britain by the military establishment but how he himself was completely at peace with his conscience. >> oliver: more deadlines on the battle field when "war stories" continues.

>> oliver: december 1941. the surprise attack on pearl harbor by the japanese forced the united states into a two front war. in those early dark days allied victory was far from certain. >> i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. >> his phrase. >> the truth had to be protected by a body guard of a thousand lies. he felt it was moreally okay to lie if necessary to win the war. a. >> oliver: in this war of national survivor truth in pictures was at times a casualty. hollywood jumped aboard, producing propaganda films. this account of the bombing of pearl harbor mixed real footage with actors cast as japanese

pilots. public opinion wins wars. even in the climate of suppressing losses or enhancing victories war correspondents did good work and got news to the public. >> this is edward morrow speaking from london. there were more german planes over the coast of britain today than at any time since the war began. >> i wanted to go overseas and i wanted to get involved. >> 25-year-old paul green arrived in north africa in 1943. his paper was the star's and stripes. >> it was run by the military. you know, there was censorship in various places but there had to be some censorship. >> paul green was there. >> it if it was terribly important that they get an eyewitness report out not just for the soldiers but for americans back home. >> oliver: the words and images

came at a price. the casualty rate for photographers and correspondents was four times greater than the military in general. >> i didn't want to die but on the other hand you have to be in a certain place to get the story. >> all of a sudden mortars start to come in. you got mad as hell, not that you would get killed but they were interfering with your writing. >> oliver: a marine corps correspondent he was one of thousands uniformed reporters, photographers and cameramen. >> how many days from the day you would write the story would it appear in the paper. >> a week. went ap, up, ips. we were the only ones on the spot doing the story. >> oliver: consider them the early embeds injuries the world began to see the sacrifices being made for their freedom. in september of '43 this photograph was published in

life magazine. the first time american dead were seen by the public. >> it was a feeling towards the end of the war that we have to steal the nation for the last push so let's just show the nation what some of its citizens have sacrificed in order to win the war. >> oliver: the war produced iconic images. perhaps the most famous, joe rosen that will's flag raising on. >> it's not a set up picture. i had nothing to do with the location that the pole was placed. i did not give a signal as to when it would go up. >> somebody yelled here it goes. >> oliver: the eyewitness combat artist also flour riched during world war ii. avery is a retired marine corps colonel. >> i have a painting called the price by a great artist tom lee

and he happened to look up just as a marine stepped ashore, got hit with a mortar round. it was horrifying. an effect that a photograph could never have gotten. it doesn't impulse and intensifies the agony of what these heros. these heros went through. >> oliver: coming up, the live recording of an amphibious assault and the academy award earned under fire. you won't believe what you seet and hear. any? wait -- scratch that -- what makes you trust a car insurae company? a talking animal? a talking character? a talking animal character? how fancy their commercials are, maybe? or how many there are? well what about when a company's customers do the talking? esurance customers are saying stuff like "awesome" and "rockin'." and they aren't even paid to.

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from america's news headquarters i'm claudia cowen. are a survey shows the average price of a gallon of gas has 18 cents in the last twothe weeks. the national average for regular unleaded now $3.69 per gallon. experts say the rising price of crude oil is responsible. san francisco with the highest price at $4.24 and denver the lowest national average at $3.07 a gallon. a federal judge delayed the start of a civil trial involving the massive bp oil spill. the april 2010 spill the worst in the nation's history, killing 11 people. more than 200 million-gallons of crude spilled into the gulf of mexico when a drilling rig exploded. the judge noting there has been

some progress in settlement talks. analysts predict it could cost bp as many as $30 billion in damages. "the artist" won the best motion picture oscar. best actress went to meryl streep who played margaret thatchier. octavia won for her role in the help and christopher plummer best supporting actor for his portrayial of an elderly widow her. the final chapter for the lass missing american serviceman in iraq. the military identified the last remains. the army sergeants born in iraq and raised in michigan. he was kidnapped almost six

years ago when her left his base on a moto motorcycle to vt his iraqi wife in baghdad. now, back to "war stories" with oliver north. >> it looks as though it is practically on fire. >> july, 1944. when the troops at the beaches of guam marine corps correspondent ail venice joseffy was there behide them. >> american bombers going down on the back of a base. we can see the beach clearly now. they are very close now. what's the matter? hey, spread out. spread out. there's one marine lying on his back with blood pouring out of him into the water. >> carrying this heavy radio equipment describing minute by

minute, step-by-step the approach to the beach. >> i'm thinking of my home and my wife and my lit daughter. >> it was a tremendous feat and the battlefield recordings of preserved at the library of congress. 21-year-old oklahoma norm hatch was a combat cameraman when was assigned to cover the marine landings on the fiercely held japanese island. >> no one had ever photographed an amphibious landing and realizing that i knew that i had a great deal of responsibility. vie from: as you can vena the the film he stood up in the line of fire even when tough marines were hunkering down. >> i think i was too young and too dumb to worry about being shot. >> he captured on film some of the pacific war's most intense and brutal compact. the foot and was so compelling it was used to make the

documentary. it won the 1944 academy award. during world war ii allied war correspondents operated within the parameters of censorship rule. >> in the second world war there are no claiming all victories and no losses. a lot of the horror of the war in the pacific was told. there was no question that all the correspondents knew which side they were on. >> i think probably wars more accurately reported historically than almost any other events. >> oliver: by 1968 at the height of the vietnam war more than 100 million television sets were available to show the news from the battlefields. it was a living room war. >> vietnam was an abration. the administration wanted to show how you tough america was

being on communism. you went out there as a correspondent and you were allowed to go where you wanted to. >> a lot of the reporting from vietnam which was clearly one sided. we saw the horrors of it and so on but did not hear much of what was happening on the other side. >> oliver: at its peak over 600 journalists were covering vietnam. the military invested men and material to record the war. like christopher jensen. >> i was attending photo journalism courses and it occurred to me maybe what i ought to do it enlift in the army. if you enlisted it was three years but the mill tar arery would train you in a specialty that you requested. >> oliver: jensen became one of 300,000 soldiers trained by the signal corps to shoot pictures. the military's role in documenting wars is easy to

overlook. much of the film you see of wars past was shot by troops, not independent journalists. >> dominating the main highway to the north. >> one of the films was a great thing from world war ii and there is a scene where a guy gets up and throws a hand grenade and ducks down again which is a good plan and the photographer stays up and we were all like so that is the plan. >> oliver: jensen spent 15 months in the bush recaptured the terror and the mundane of a soldier's life in vietnam. but being in uniform didn't rob him of a journalist's curiosity or the willingness to bend the rules in search of the truth. >> we had heard that there was some bad stuff going on at a fire support base called rip cord and we headed up north and the routine was you would have to check in with the public information office and they just said they didn't care, nobody was being allowed out to

rip cord. >> oliver: jensen and his team went to rip cord anyway. as a result there are photographs and film of that desperate battle. a battle the military was trying to keep quiet. why does it matter? because 75 men died at rip cord. nearlin early 2004 "war storie" aired an episode about the men who fought and died there. >> there were times we knew that was a special situation. we loved photography and the idea of documenting something important. >> oliver: you you got hired by the associated press at age 16. >> yeah. >> what did you know about being a photographer? >> i learned most from my brother. he was 18. >> nick's brother was killed in 1965 while on assignment. the loss and his own close calls didn't defer him. >> you were wounded three times. >> yes. >> would you be medivacked along with the other military people? >> by the u.s. helicopter.

>> did you take a vacation. in. >> no, two weeks and then i get out and i want to go back and take pictures right away. that is why my office said you are crazy. >> oliver: in 1972 nick took one of war fare's most shocking photographs. meet the little girl in the picture, next on "war stories." s

>> oliver: january 1968 the communists launched the offensive. tens of thousands of north vietnamese soldiers and viet

cong attacked thousands of cities in vietnam. the fierce fight much on city streets. 1100 americans and 3500 south vietnamese troops were killed. eddie adams was on the streets in saigon when a sniper was cornered. >> they pull this guy out the door and they just grabbed from the second story. he was sniping on the second story. we just seen him and we start following him walking up the street and out of no where from my left i see this guy walk in and as soon as we got close to him, i see him open a pistol. as he raised the pistol up i raised my camera and took a picture. as soon as he shot him he walked towards me and he said they killed many of my men and many of your people, it is either them or you. they grabbed this guy after he shot another guy and i kind of tell people if you were him at that time how do you know you wouldn't have pulld that

trigger. >> the front page picture added more fuel to the antiwar movement. the execution received the 1969 pulitzer prize, something that still amazes adams. >> i'm not joking i still get -- i think the picture of kim folk running down is. i have seen great pictures taken in vietnam that are a hell of a lot better than my picture. >> june 8, 1972. >> pick up my camera. i focus the lens and took a picture. right away. and another bomb explodes. >> black smoke from the ney bomb. >> and took a picture. four or five photos. >> do you remember hearing the sound of fighting that morning? >> yes, i -- i just -- i remember that it was about going to be bombed and i saw the fire everywhere and then

the fire is burning off my clothes. and i saw the fire and i kept running and running and i scream out too hot, too hot and the soldier just gave me some water to drink and then he tried to help me. he poured the water over me. >> did you remember seeing nick taking the photographs. >> i saw so many soldiers there. i didn't know he was there. >> after photographing the south vietnamese air strike and its aftermath nick used his car to rush kim and several others to the hospital. >> i'm so grateful that he saved my life. >> were you ever angry at him for takeing that picture? >> sometime i say i wish that picture not taken. i wish -- i hate everybody.

>> kim spent 14 months in hospitals recovering from her burns. but the photograph trapped her into being used as an antiamerican propaganda tool and forced her to for fi forfer dream of becoming a doctor. >> and finally i really wanted to die. one day i just say to the sky and i asked god are you real, please help me. and then i became christian in 1982. can christmas, 1982. and since then i just pray and he saved me from hatred, anger and bitterness and i didn't want to die any more. >> for his part, nick at the age of 22 became the first vietnamese and the youngest photographer to win the pulitzer prize. in 1992, kim found herself flying from moscow you to cuba during a refueling stop in

canada she defected and began a new life. >> i can use that picture for good to promote peace. let people know how horrible war can be. we cannot change the past but with love we can heal the future and then i realized that that picture is -- it became very powerful gift for me. >> oliver: a war correspondent -- can a war correspondent prevent an -- it was fires all over time.3q >> find out next on "warge stories." medicine with a heart. only coricidin hbp has a heart, right here. it's the only cold and flu brand that won't raise your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. powerful cold medicine with a heart. 3q why nature made? they were the first to be verified by the usp. an independent organization that sets strict

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>> oliver: in the wake of vietnam war everything changed. >> the military man said later on never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents by constant distortion and lies and emphasis centered upon their own country's army. >> oliver: the days of total access and free movement for journalists were gone. 1983 grenada. journalists are barred from the island until three days after the invasion. 1990, iraq invades kuwait. >> loot of it appears like a video game. you see air strikes and you see cruise missiles taking off and explosions and lights in the

sky. >> oliver: in the wake of the first gulf war the military realized excluding the media might have been a mistake. a conference was called in veteran war correspondent joe galloway was there. >> and they had all the division commanders, marine, army on one side of the table and us on the other and those guys especially the army guys were just sitting there looking sick because they just fought this remarkable 100 hour campaign and won all these incredible tank battles in the desert and didn't have a single foot of film. not a picture. nada. >> i got that. >> in the second gulf war they decided the military decided that they wouldn't manage the media as such. they would incorporate the media. >> did you get it? got it? >> got it. >> all right. mission accomplished.

>> oliver: fox news greg kelly covered operation iraqi freedom with the army's third infantry division. >> we could report and show whatever it was we were seeing. i mean that is terrific. in combat. couldn't see photographs of dead enemy soldiers or friendly casualties up close. it worked out fairly well. >> an american tank. an m 1 tank. >> shortly after we crossed the euphrates river an american m 1 tank was taken out and it was on live television and an officer in the vehicle in front of us started pointing at the camera giving us the frantic cut sign like this and it was not the time or the place for argument so we turned off our picture. >> we arrived at our objective and they told us that basically they felt that someone back at home got nervous about an american tank burning on live television.

they didn't expect to see that but that is one of the things that happens in war from time to time. it is the danger of embedding. everybody was playing by the ground rules we were until they said kill the picture. it's part of the story. >> we need ammo of all sorts. bring all you can. hurry. >> was quite content to be on the u.s. side traveling with u.s. forces. is that because i had blinders on. in. >> i think that iraq was unique in that the particular television media was dazzled by the possibility that they might be able to have a real time war from both sides. it didn't work out like that. and you are back to the problem russell faced whose side am i on. >> should a greater effort be made to report about the other side? >> i think there is a new school o of journalism which ss you must be objective and dispassionate about everything including your own country's interests and i think that is taking it too far. >> oliver: is it wrong for a report forefeel an affection

for the troops? >> of course, it is not wrong. if you are an american covering a war and americans fighting and america's future is at stake, of course, you are on that side. now, you have got to tell the truth. >> we were objective in that we reported the good along with the bad that our unit had encountered. we also talked about their mistakes. friendly fire incidents. the killing of innocent civilians. i also said that we were biased. definitely biased in that we wanted the united states to win. >> i knew this is going to go badly wrong when i landed on an empty plane and the airport is absolutely crushed of people fighting their way on to the plane. >> oliver: marie colvin went to indonesia to cover a contentious election in indonesia. the end indonesian army moved

in to crush the movement. as the violence spread the u.n. evacuated all but one compound. >> and they were going to leave behind these 1500 women and children so i decided to stay. every u.n. compound that was overrun they got the u.n. staff out, mostly european australian or american and the u.n. nonstaff left behind were slaughtered. >> with the u.n. preparing to leave their last compound marie made her stand. >> at that point i decided i don't work for the sunday times. i had the only line of communication and i'm going to talk to everybody and are you still a journalist. what mattered more to me if you weren't evacuated these women and children going to die. >> oliver: there is no doubt that it was crossing the line. >> i would do it again. i guess that is the answer. >> she said i'm not going. i'm going to stay and i will tell the world what you did and that prevented the atrocity. >> almost two years after saving those lives marie found herself trying to save her own.

>> it was in april of 2001 to be exact. and i had gone to northern sri lanka which is essentially no journalist had been allowed for six years. >> oliver: sri lanka has been racked by civil war for more than 20 years as forces fight for independence. >> brutal on both sides and it was getting back out that i was injured. so as we were crossing the field dark of night they just opened fire. flares go up, and that is just terrifying. i just hit the ground. >> oliver: in the dark of night marie heard soldiers moving toward her. >> i was uninjured until i yelled journalist at which point they launched a grenade which hit about four feet from me. remember this is just -- i remember thinking this is such

a stupid place to die. >> oliver: marie was stabilized at a local military hospital and later had more surgery in new york but never regained the sight in her left eye. >> it was a half inch of shrapnel that went through and it is still there. too close to the brain to get out. >> oliver: did you have any eregrets about that experience? >> when marie was recuperating room service delivered a gift, a fixing for vodka mar tee anies. anies. who sent the li the libations?. some of the people she saved. "war stories" will be right back. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every rchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding. coming through! [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles

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