Bob Woodruff
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Podcast Appearances
Always great to be with you.
We're passing in the halls usually.
I need to do more 2020 with you.
I was always infatuated with going overseas and far away.
And, of course, wars became the story for me after 9-11.
We were based over in London, and then we knew what was happening.
Within about five hours, I took off after the attack to head over to Pakistan and to Afghanistan to cover the beginning of that war.
Fast forward, of course, we had the invasion of Iraq.
I was over there on assignment in Iraq six different times, but the last time that I went there, I was actually embedded with the army.
and we're going village by village, and an IED exploded off to the left, hit my cameraman, Doug, and me.
I was out for the next 36 days, miraculously saved.
And since then, I've been very close with the other soldiers and Marines.
all of the military that I've actually gotten to know very well.
This is not on the field out there in the middle of the front lines, but the ones that I've met in the world that they go to when they return from the wars.
This is a murder case that, this happened back in 2008, as you said, so quite a long time ago, but what had never been, what never happened before this was that Holly, the victim, her father and her brother finally wanted to talk.
So we got the chance to talk to them.
It was an exclusive, two exclusive interviews about this.
And this is the one that kind of turned the story around in many ways, because it wasn't, this is really the world of emotion.
Imagine the family when they lost, when the father lost his daughter, when the son lost his sister.