Debris To the Brain Makes Non-Jerks Of Us All
Hotshot journalist loved by his wife since not dying
There’s a pro and con to everything—evenhaving your husband nearly die in a roadside explosion. Con: massive brain damage makes identifying scissors difficult for him. But pro: He’s better around the house.
At least that’s the case for Lee Woodruff, wife of Bob Woodruff, the ABC correspondent who was injured last year outside of Baghdad. The mostly recovered Woodruff told the Times, “My wife has even said I was kind of a jerk sometimes, and now I’m not.”
Well, we won’t say claiming not be a jerk is bit jerky to a man who nearly died while covering the war in Iraq. Glad to have you back, Bob.
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Must there be a cynical "take" on *everything*? How inappropriate. It's nothing less than a miracle that Bob Woodruff is alive. (Had he suffered a comparable head wound here in the United States, he would likely have died; in the States, we don't have surgical techniques to match those perfected, out of necessity, by Army Field Hospitals in Iraq.) As Lennon and McCartney would say, "let it be".