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Long before it becomes a spine on President Trump, Anderson Cooper, CNN's Erudite HostAnderson Cooper 360, has spent a large part of the last two decades following a drag of blood and chaos at every corner of the world: Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq - and N Do not forget the shootings and natural disasters that afflict our country on an apparently weekly basic weekly. He was shot at. He was imprisoned. He saw children die. Throughout everything, he did not stammer a little.

Cooper told these tales in two books,Dispatches of the edgeandThe rainbow comes and goes and goes, the latter he co-wrote with hismother, Gloria Vanderbilt. (Yes,thoseVanderbiltes.) All men would not be able to handle such devastating experiences so skilful and frankly, without speaking again and again. So, how does it do? Well, it's just a moment:

"I keep a photo nailed at the edge of the cork in my office at CNN. It is Rwanda during the genocide. One of my friends who was photographer took it. It's a picture of me taking a photo From a massacre scene, five people who had been killed. Their bodies had begun to break down and I photographed the skin on the hand of this person, who had farted like a glove.

"My friend showed me the picture and said," Are you seeing you? "For me, it's a moment when I realized that I had crossed a line and I did not really see things properly. I photographed it with my own camera, and not for the story that I covered.

"You know, you arrive at a place where you can see some things and work. It was harder early in my career, because everything is shocking, and it's still shocking and it should be shocking. But you should find a way To pass this. Everyone always poses the question "why something like that happens?" You arrive at a place where you do not have to ask this question, why? 'You can live in a world where there is no why. It's right.

"It is at this moment that atrocity manages the risk of becoming similar. You really have to fight. There is a tendency to compare one event to another and to have this kind of scaling scaling. You Meet people coming out and say, "Oh, it's not as bad as in Rwanda in 194! I am around people like that, and it always strikes me as inappropriate to compare tragedies. Each place is unique. Each story is different. When you arrive at a point where you think of all the stories as the same thing, then you have to stop doing it. You stop reacting so as to react as a human being.

"I keep this picture as a reminder."

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