“Rooney elevated Kellner’s leg, which was “a blur of gore and bone,” according to an onlooker. A tanker removed his shirt and tied the sleeve around Kellner’s thigh in an attempt to stem the bleeding. As Rooney held him, Kellner stared back at the newsman blindly. But the tourniquet was too little, too late. Kellner died in his fellow soldier’s arms. “I had never been present before at the moment someone died,” Rooney would write. “I didn’t know whether to cry or throw up.”
