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Article Link: Caryn Sullivan - Hope and Humor and Life in the Present

DateNovember 8, 2010 CommentPost a Comment
The Midwest is a wonderful place full of amazing people!  One of these great people is author Caryn Sullivan.   I recently recieved a touching letter from Caryn about the impact of the Bob Woodruff Foundation and Remind.org.  Here's an excerpt from Caryn's article:
Bob Woodruff's future was brilliant in 2006. The ABC News journalist, father of four and husband to Lee, secured the coveted World News Tonight co-anchor chair after Peter Jennings died. Then fate intervened. Embedded with an Iraqi army unit, Bob was struck by a roadside bomb filled with rocks. He sustained a severe head wound that should have killed him. Amazingly, after lying comatose for 36 days, he not only recovered, he returned to work, but not to the anchor chair.
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    by Caryn Sullivan at Twin Cities Pioneer Press on November 6, 2010
    Lee and their children were at Disney World when Bob was injured. He had originally planned to be there with them, but instead went to Iraq to broadcast on the eve of President Bush's State of the Union address. While Lee rode Disney's "Tower of Terror" with their children, Bob surveyed what seemed to be improved conditions in Iraq. After the roadside bomb struck, the Woodruffs faced the prospect that the man who thrived on reporting breaking news had a traumatic brain injury...

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