Dear ABC Team:
Recently, it came to my attention that Bob Woodruff and Doug Vhot had been wounded over in Iraq...I want to say that I watched this footage and I could hardly finish watching...I felt a deep sense of hurt and pounding in my chest to listen to the doctors, friends, family, soldiers, and to learn of this incident...Our men and women on the frontlines are given an eye by your team...many others come and gone as well , but I trully felt a great stab in the chest, because now the news team I think highly of has displayed a heroism that brings it home as a civilian, who can now understand the pain and sorrow of our military men...their families, their children... a nation torn by death,and sorrow... (If I have spelled Doug's last name wrong forgive me).
It wasn't until I saw this footage, that I realized you now fully understand the depth of war...to live it first hand is a great pain and rememberance when it is one of your own, this is a family, just like us who wear the uniform, there is a sense of urgency that accompanies family tragedy..all to often we are removed when its not our blood, or a friend, someone important to us...that is why this war must end, it is ripping us apart ... Ross! I felt, the rememberance when JFK was killed on National TV, when I was a child, I also felt the depth of pain rekindled when this war began and I had to stand at the gates and say goodbye to my comrades...many things flicker in a soldiers mind, that bring tears to one's eyes for those of us that stay behind...a feeling that encompasses dread, dispair, can't do enough to help cope, trying to make the children happy...I have served and been treated with less with dignity by those who are here on the home front because people go about as if nothing is happening, they have little feel of who we are...each profession has a certain recognition of awareness to those that are doing the same service they are serving, therefore take note that those of us in uniform are many, and feel a sense of pain and vigilance that will never go awy, now you and your staff have now faced it, time will heal but you will never forget, just like the soldier who faces the little compassion as they make their way competing for favor, but I would have been bettter to be with the men and women who are closer than the people here....love is when one stands in the face of our fellow man and learns to be a family without blood of kin...a friend in times of hurt, and knowing we are each American gives you a sense of kinship...it becomes a bond like those soldiers helping Bob and Doug, they felt it, just like you staff, the one's who are closest know its rip...I commend such a brave team to tackle the war and the events that have and continue to happen right here at home...nothing is more important than the news that is about more than frivolous mush that we are watching on TV today...leisure news find another page... just because its about vanity and richness, that does nothing for the families who have a loved one gone..we can turn it off sometimes but the need to stay abreast comes back when we finish what ever we were doing....our men need us, because they are of us...Canadians are over there, how many more...Blessings to All the staff at ABC, especially Mr Westin. for having one fine team..Apachecheynne