Yes, sometimes hopes and prayers are realized in a tragedy. ABC News‘ Bob Woodruff, seriously injured while reporting a story in Iraq five months ago, returned to the ABC Newsroom yesterday — a day many thought would never come.
And as Charles Gibson noted, “As you might expect, he attracted a crowd.”
Watch the video here (there is a commercial first).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.