Bob Woodruff's back to work : Husband 'Not the Same' After Iraq Explosion

[babylonsister]

Edit to reflect this is a piece Woodruff wrote, not about himself.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2935244&page=1

Husband 'Not the Same' After Iraq Explosion

Wife Finds Him Changed, but It Takes VA Two Years to Diagnose Brain Injury

By Bob Woodruff / ABC News

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A few months into his tour, his armored vehicle rolled over a bomb and the explosion whipped Hardy violently around inside.

He said a witness who took a picture of him "said we went 10 feet up in the air."

Hardy blacked out, but military doctors didn't screen him for head injury. They checked his knees and sent him back into the fight two days later.

"I knew something was wrong," he said. "I was always banging my head into obstacles. And it's like my memory of what's around me wasn't keeping the information."

After nearly three years of experience with the unique injuries from improvised explosive devices, the U.S. government has only recently come to realize the unforeseen consequences for GIs subjected to these blasts.

"You don't have to be in the Humvee that gets hit by the bomb," said Paul Sullivan, a veterans advocate. "You could be in the Humvee behind it and have that blast wave hit you and still suffer some mild traumatic brain injury."

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[bigtree]

1. good to see him back on the job and focusing on the injured soldoers

[babylonsister]

2. Yes, he is one of the lucky ones (if you can say that about a man

who lost a big part of his head). :-(

[Monkeyman]

3. He will never be the same but man is he lucky to be here

[danalytical]

4. Woodruff is just the reporter, not the topic

Woodruff is just the reporter, not the topic. I think some of the readers here are confusing Woodruff's injury to the story he filed about this Hardy family. The title is confusing.

[babylonsister]

5. Thanks. I edited title to try to clarify. nt

[fed-up]

6. 360 google news hits Bob Woodruff veterans-220 Paul Sullivan veterans-85 Steve Robinson

looks like care for veterans has finally made it into MSM

Hats off to those working so hard to expose the truth so our vets get the care they need!

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Yes, I am aware the above story is a few days old, this is a suggestion for future stories. We must show the MSM that there is public interest in these stories so they stay in the media.

[babylonsister]

7. Two days 'old' doesn't seem old to me; the story is still relevant

and will be for a long time to come.
I agree; we can't let this story die from neglect.

[yellerpup]

8. Somehow mild and traumatic just don't go together.

Bring them home now.

[stonebone]

9. K&R

[ellacott]

10. Good Article

I wish Bob Woodruff the best and hope he can continue to shine the spotlight on this travesty.

He was on Tim Russert promoting his book with his wife. His wife made a Freudian slip. When Tim asked her about she handled things when she was first called about her husband's injury. She mentioned that they were at Disney World and after she composed herself after the call her first thought was,"We've got to get these troops home". She then corrected herself and said, "I've got to get the kids home".