Iraq War have described violent incidents involving U.S. troops in Iraq. In July 2004, during the height of the Abu Ghraib scandal, he alleged that American troops sexually assaulted young boys: In a subsequent interview with New York magazine, Hersh regretted that "I actually didn't quite say what I wanted to say correctly. ... It wasn't that inaccurate, but it was misstated. The next thing I know, it was all over the blogs. And I just realized then, the power of—and so you have to try and be more careful." In Chain of Command, he wrote that one of the witness statements he had read described the rape of a boy by a foreign contract interpreter at Abu Ghraib, during which a woman took pictures. Personal life Hersh married Elizabeth Sarah Klein, a psychiatrist, in 1964. They have three children. Awards and honors Hersh's journalism and publishing awards include the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, five George Polk Awards (making him that award's most honored laureate as of 2004), two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting: 1969: George Polk Special Award, for reporting on the My Lai massacre (Dispatch News Service) 1970: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, and Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, for reporting on the My Lai massacre (Dispatch News Service) 1973: George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting and Scripps-Howard Public Service Award, for reporting on Operation Menu (The New York Times) 1974: George Polk Award for National Reporting, for reporting on Operation CHAOS (The New York Times) 1975: Hillman Prize for Newspaper Reporting, for reporting on Operation CHAOS (The New York Times) 1981: George Polk Award for National Reporting (with Jeff Gerth and Philip Taubman) and Sigma Delta Chi Award, for reporting on arms sales to Libya by former CIA agents (The New York Times) 1983: National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 1984: Hillman Prize for Book Reporting, for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 1992: Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, for The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy 2004: National Magazine Award for Public Interest, for articles on the Bush administration in the lead-up to the Iraq War (The New Yorker);