Posted on 01/29/2006 5:25:40 AM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
Bob Woodward and photographer injured in IED attack.
Thanks for the extended report. I wonder whether "shrapnel wounds to the head" include face-deforming injuries, which would be a tough thing for Woodruff to sustain given that he earns his living on camera. Of course, plastic surgery is excellent these days.
Prayers for both of these men.
Fair enough. Some of the comments have gone way too far, I can't dispute that.
ABC'll campaign B16 to make him a @$&#ing saint.
IF they are not prayers and sunshine for fallen Journo-heros then they are deleted in less than a minute. I will pray for these men but a bit of repsect to the troopers is really due here IMNSHO
Forum is here, give it a try, the hammer and sicle live/well at ABC/DISNEY NEWS!:
http://forums.go.com/abcnews/forum?forumID=9&byThread=true
Hypocrisy ought never be diluted, neither with ice nor mixer, so what the hell, let's drink it straight and raise our glass to some kick-ass, scar-marked, extremity-lost payback to some s.o.b. who didn't mind this happening to one of our boys or girls who didn't have CBS to broadcast the pain.
Do we feel better now?
Oh, my. I'm to wish physical ill upon a fellow American over political views? Wow. Does anyone really think this way? If so, now I know who the real s.o.b. is.
Thanks for the ping.
You are very n00b to be posting such rubbish. Nobody has elevated these men above our military. If you genuinely feel this way, NB4ZOT.
Pray for him and his lovely wife Judy.
They were not brave, so much as thought they were invincible.
Prayers for the injured regardless and a quick and painful death to the "insurgents" responsible.
His wife's name is Lee.
Apparently they were both close friends with David Bloom, and helped comfort his wife when he died in Iraq.
From April 2003:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/73523p-68023c.html
ABC's Bob Woodruff and NBC's David Bloom had a lot in common.
Both were fast-rising correspondents for their networks and both were passionate about covering the war in Iraq while embedded with U.S. troops.
Today, Woodruff is headed back to the U.S. After he learned that Bloom died Sunday from a pulmonary embolism while covering the 3rd Infantry Division, Woodruff immediately left his position with the Marine Expeditionary Force in northern Iraq to help Bloom's family with funeral arrangements. (No date has been set for the services.)
"After I talked on the phone to Dave's wife, Melanie, it was clear to me that I had to come back and help," Woodruff said, "and help my kids and my wife, too, because they equate my life and situation with Dave's."
Woodruff remembers when he first met Bloom at a Larry King roast in Washington.
"Our wives hit it off really big," the ABC News correspondent told the Daily News yesterday from Kuwait City. "My wife said for the first time she met somebody she didn't have to explain anything to."
Woodruff, 42, and Bloom, 39, became friends. They were competitive tennis partners. Each had a set of twin daughters. They took family vacations together.
The ABC correspondent had not spoken with Bloom since February, when both left Kuwait to prepare for their war assignments. But Bloom tried to contact Woodruff through the ABC News assignment desk in New York a few hours before he died.
Bloom left a message: "I just wanted to make sure you're all right — keep your head down."
"That was really quite eerie," Woodruff said. "On the other hand, he was a guy who would reach out."
Woodruff, who has covered military conflicts for ABC in Kosovo and other hot spots, said he will draw on his own experience to help Bloom's family understand what happened.
"I'll try to explain what we went through and what might have been the stresses and strains," he said.
He will also be asking himself if the job is worth the risk.
"Every time you come back [safely] you ascribe it to luck," he said. "I've got four kids, and without question it's the kind of work I love doing. So it is a dilemma."
Meanwhile, NBC officials yesterday could not confirm a BusinessWeek Online report from a correspondent embedded in the same military unit as Bloom, that he complained earlier to military doctors of pain behind his knees. Doctors suspected "deep veinous thrombosis, and advised him to seek proper medical attention," according to writer Frederik Balfour.
Hypocrisy ought never be diluted, neither with ice nor mixer, so what the hell, let's drink it straight and raise our glass to some kick-ass, scar-marked, extremity-lost payback to some s.o.b. who didn't mind this happening to one of our boys or girls who didn't have CBS to broadcast the pain.Do we feel better now?
Oh, my. I'm to wish physical ill upon a fellow American over political views? Wow. Does anyone really think this way? If so, now I know who the real s.o.b. is.
Thanks for the ping.
Ah yes, the dumb and dumber thing. Evidently, hypocrisy is not exclusive to Rats. Sad, ain't it? Thanks for your reply; hope all's well with you.
I hope they both pull through.
Though the old saw still remains true:
You pays your quarter, you takes your chances!
Jack.
Exactly how the Rangers felt when the Army brass decided to give everyone a black beret and replace the Rangers black berets with $hit-brown ones. This was in 1999.
When everyone is special..no one is.
Drudge Headline right now:
ANCHORMAN BRAIN SAID UNINJURED AFTER IRAQ BOMB
Notice it says "uninjured" -- is that a typo??? I haen't read up on all the posts...
They were not brave, so much as thought they were invincible.
Words other than "invincible" come to mind.
...but his link CURRENTLY goes to the article posted here:http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1553996&page=1Nothing about brain damage, or the LACK of it, in THAT story.
Pretty words. Now he's an anchor and doesn't have to DO field work, and I still maintain that the only reason he was there was hype: there are plenty of reporters there and he sure as sh#t would have been doing evening news 'standups'.
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