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enigmajean wrote on February 1, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Just saw this very nice ABB reference in an unexpected context. Ahh, the healing power of music! - EJ Wounded Journalists Back in US; 2 from ABC News Treated at Bethesda 1 February 2006, The Boston Globe ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, who were seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Sunday, arrived here yesterday afternoon aboard a military airlift from Germany and were transferred to Bethesda Naval Hospital. His head swathed in white gauze, Vogt was alert and talking to the doctor, nurse, and respiratory therapist who were overseeing his care during the nine-hour flight from Ramstein Air Base. At one point, Vogt was listening to the Allman Brothers Band's "Blue Sky" on an iPod resting on his chest. While doctors described Vogt's improvement as considerable, they were more cautious about Woodruff, who lay unconscious and heavily sedated on a litter across from Vogt's on a C-17 transport jet that served as a mobile intensive-care unit for the two journalists and three US soldiers, who were seriously wounded in similar bomb attacks. One of the soldiers, who is 22, was paralyzed from the waist down. The medical evacuation flight also carried more than a dozen US soldiers with less serious injuries. Air Force Major Renee Boyd, the doctor who was tending to Vogt and two of the soldiers, said Vogt's condition had improved overnight at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Vogt and Woodruff were airlifted to the military hospital in Germany early Monday after the bombing near the military convoy in which they were riding in Taji, north of Baghdad. "He's doing great," Boyd said, giving a thumbs up to Vogt, who smiled at her. Air Force Major Jonathan C. Lohrbach, the surgeon who tended to Woodruff on the flight, said the anchorman had shown some movement for the first time since he was injured. "Bob woke up a little and moved his extremities. His moving is typically a good sign," Lohrbach said. But he cautioned that doctors are still unsure the extent of damage caused to Woodruff's brain by the massive explosion that sent shrapnel into the left side of his face and head. "It's sad to say, but [Woodruff] is our standard patient," said Captain Vannecca Phelps, the nurse caring for Woodruff and the paralyzed soldier. "Our most seriously injured are almost always IEDs," referring to improvised explosive devices. Boyd said the two journalists' wives flew home on a commercial flight out of Frankfurt.
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