“It was almost impossible not to be impressed by the sheer determination of these soldiers…It’s very rare as a journalist to get to know your subject matter so intimately. I’ve covered three previous wars, and I never got this close. We got hit by mortar shells. Our platoon got ambushed. I saw what these men and women went through.”
-- Bob Woodruff speaking of the First Marine Division, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion with which he was embedded for three months in 2003.
I ask, who's slandering whom?
Thanks to triage by US soldiers at the scene of the blast and top-notch American military surgeons at Balad, Woodruff and his camerman, Doug Vogt, have survived and are in stable condition. They are to be flown to the American military hospital in Landsthul, Germany for further treatment and monitoring.
Woodruff's desire to report the war from the field resulted in his injury. He is now "intimately" acquainted, as so many of our troops are, with the deadly brutality of the IED attack.
