I heard a portion of an interview with Bob and Lee Woodruff while driving in this morning. Woodruff, you may remember, is a journalist who was critically injured by an IED in Iraq.
The interview was not political; these two have written a book (give him a break; he was unemployed the moment the rocks from the IED hit his head) which includes what happened to him and his recovery, but is more about their life together.
When the interviewer asked him about what it was like to realize he was going from the pinnacle of his profession to starting over, Woodruff said, “You think about the people around you – your wife, your husband, your kids, your parents – and you realize that what you are doing is really not that important.” (Not an exact quote – writ as soon as I could when I got to the office.)
If the portion of the interview I heard was any indication of the rest of the material, the full-length interview on NPR’s All Things Considered should be a winner. And I plan to buy the book, too – In An Instant.
