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In an excerpt from the book Flash: Lee

Orlando, Florida, January 28, 2006

There is a ride at Disney World called the Tower of Terror, and the weekend of January 28, 2006, my four sons, twins of the same five years old, asked me to go on this ride and again.

Housed in a re-created hotel Hollywood aging, the tour begins when you climb into a creaky elevator that snakes through the store scary. An electrical storm kicks up and right something goes wrong on the track with power. The hotel lift the stranger suddenly drops. The descent is so rapid, so sudden that it almost sucks your diaphragm into your throat, and shortly before the fall there is a moment where you are literally suspended in air, too stunned to scream. It feels as if speed, motion, light and time, literally, freeze.

We have had to walk half a dozen times. And then the feeling came back the next morning as I rolled over in my king-size bed hotel. The previous day, children and I had been to Disney World's Animal Kingdom. We marveled at the African safari ride, rapids assembled in Asia, and as we got soaked howled our way down the water by the white man. After an early dinner we'd rented a pedal bike with another family and laughed until he cried like other run bikers around the lake, while fireworks exploded over the Epcot.

Fold four children to bed that night, I silently congratulated myself on a good weekend. I came to Disney to film a TV pilot for Family Entertainment. We spent two days on set and then the rest of the time had been the reward for Kids: combing the parks of Disney character autographs for the twins and full of adrenaline for the older ones. We had planned to fly back home on Sunday and prepare to school.

Toting around four children by myself was not new. That weekend my husband, Bob Woodruff, the newly anointed co-anchor of World News Tonight ABC was thousands of miles away in Iraq. We talked to him briefly that day, between Safari and rapids ride. He and his team had a tiring day covering the elections in Palestine before flying to Baghdad in advance of President Bush's State of the Union address. The plan was to increase the ABC's Iraq coverage at an important moment in war. The pace was blistering, common to any foreign correspondent who must keep moving and file stories from faraway places in time zones eight to twelve hours ahead ours.

Bob and his crew were operating on an aggressive schedule with fewer hours of sleep each night. As usual, the itinerary was punishing. Come in stories about the Iraqi military, anchor from Baghdad during Bush's speech, making some pieces for the Good Morning America, and the way back, try Finally an interview with the king of Jordan in Amman, capital of Jordan.

Our conversations with him from Disney World was short and hard. The cellular service in Iraq was spotted and the time difference was frustrating. We had a talk Saturday at noon, as he and his crew were going to bed at a military complex somewhere in Baghdad. He thoroughly mumbled something about getting much-needed sleep the next day. Exactly what he said I do not register at this time. My daughter Cathryn was determined to buy a puka shell necklace. With my shoulder cradling the phone, I negotiated some cash from my wallet while keeping an eye on the twins, they were dangerously close to a fence in front of a grove of bamboo.

Later, Bob would swear that he told me was that he was going to embed with the military for some exercises, while I'd swear he just said that his team was going to relax during the day. At the end of our conversation I passed the phone around so the kids could say hi. This was a common practice in our home – goodnight kisses, homework help, all via satellite. When your father covers news around the world, the phone becomes a tool primary communication, for better or for worse.

"You feel safe there?" I asked distractedly, picking up change Cathryn. "You okay?" It was a stupid rhetorical question, even more absurd by the fact that they were walking at Disney World, the place most Happy Land, "while he was somewhere in the most violent place on earth.

"I do. We are surrounded by the military. It's good," he reassured me. He and his cameraman Doug Vogt, could not know that the elevator was about to fall. Ocher-colored sands on a lonely road on the outskirts of Baghdad, who were about to enter their own Tower of Terror.

That night I turned on the receipt of a 7:00 wake-up call. With older children sleeping beside Twins, maybe I could slide down the next morning and take a quick dip in the pool before lunch. Even though it was January in Florida, the water was refreshing and would be a great way to start our last day in Orlando.

In a few days Bob would be home and we'd be a family again. Its appointment as co-anchor was a grueling pace for the past month, even on weekends. His days were filled with photo shoots, press conferences and campaigns advertising. The new program with Elizabeth Vargas and Bob is committed to go down in history, to have an anchor in the road and another in the studio as soon as possible. Bob relished the challenge. It was a new era at ABC News. There was an excitement in the broadcast, which was a welcome tonic after months of suffering illness after Peter Jennings and then death from lung cancer. Bob and Elizabeth would give the news department something to rally around, after feeling like a ship without its beloved captain.

"Just get through January," I said Bob, as he left for the Middle East on that fateful voyage. It became a kind of mantra for us after the announcement, as he shot out the door as a newly minted co-anchor.

"I really do not want to leave you," he said, when he turned to the door frame of my home office, rolling in the handbag. He looked exhausted, distracted and not looking forward to getting on a plane to go back to Iraq for the sixth or seventh time in three years. The city car was already idling in the garage.

"Just get through January," I I repeated, "and life will assume a more normal pattern. We'll have weekends again, and can be a family."

He reeled off everything was packed, waiting for me to find out what he could have lost. This was familiar territory, leaving it unspecified. Should have had more weight, but to give it more importance would have jinxed it in my mind. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza Strip: give him a kiss, as always, treat it like a normal morning, and he'll go home safe and sound. I had a deadline to work that day, and the sooner I got him on the road as fast as I could finish my task.

Frankly, I do not I thought a lot about Bob over the Disney weekend either. The day was full and the kids eager to pack as much as possible. Bob drew sustenance from being on the road, stories, energy, the adrenaline rejuvenated him. He loved being a journalist, and that meant leaving them for periods of time. We may not have always liked, but we did not made peace with him as a family. Periods of being intensely together were interlaced with periods of being apart.

As I turned and turned off the light head that Saturday night at Disney World, I thought we all rise to this new challenge of Bob's career as well. "Co-anchor." It was good and bad. Well, because he had reached the pinnacle of his profession, a plum job in television news, the successor of a journalism icon. Bad, because we see it even more. Our time setting for the family that needs some revision.

The morning phone call pierced the silence and I wake with a jolt quilt flowers and chintz in a room totally unknown. It took me a second to register where I was. Oh right, I thought. Disney World. The wake-up call.

I flipped and caught up the receiver. "Thanks," I said, and lazily began to set him back in the crib. I had decided to stay there for a few more minutes before I escaped the door.

"Lee?" A faint voice came from the receiver, now almost back in place. Geesh, I thought. Personalized wake-up calls, how very Disney. I brought the phone back in my ear to thank the man.

"Lee, David Westin, said the voice.

He had my immediate attention. My brain fired signals to my body I locked up the pillows. The president of ABC News does not make social calls to the wives of workers at 7am one morning Sunday, even a co-anchor's wife. I licked my lips and swallowed. My mouth was dry.

"We trying to reach it," he said in slow measured voice. He paused for a beat, as if to evaluate how he could say his next line. "Bob was wounded in Iraq."

I sat straight up, trying to process the information I was hearing. Every synapse in my brain was firing. "Hurt?" I said to David Westin, as calmly as I could. "What do you mean wounded?"

"He was in a walking embed outside Baghdad with the Iraqi army. We do not have much information at the moment, Lee, but we're starting as soon as possible. We're getting the best care possible. "

"David." I interrupted. "My husband is alive?"

"Yes, Bob Lee is alive, but we believe it may have taken shrapnel in the brain. "

I tried to digest what that meant and could not understand. He was alive, I start with that. The rest was gravy.

"What was a anchor doing a military exercise? "I asked, raising his voice." The last thing I knew he was doing a story about an ice cream shop Baghdad. I thought they were sleeping! "My mind has understood the facts, searching for what I knew or thought I knew. I was back at the Tower of Terror.

You I do not know how you would behave in a crisis, until the sky falls down and hits like a bandit: stealing your future, robbing you of your dreams, and mocking at which resembles certainty. Sudden tragic events and even slow-burning disaster to teach us more about ourselves than most of us would like to know.

I felt the panic in my voice as I spoke to David Westin, and slow tears streaming down my face. At the same time, I began to feel a cold steel drain and calm in my brain. It slowly formed a cocoon in which I could think and react rationally, disembodied from my emotions. In the coming months, this cocoon will allow me to deal with nature Public crisis, synthesize information, deal with medical teams, communicate with family and taking care of business at hand without falling into a mass of bone coward.

For now, the calm of steel began to become a part of me that became the "General". The General would make important decisions, hold things for the troops, take charge, and – most important for our team – ensure they do not lose a single man on the battlefield. The general was beginning to assume.

"Lee, we have a plane waiting to take him home and children to Westchester" David said. "You just have to tell us the time. It is stocked and ready to go. "

I felt I needed to keep him in line for some reason. I was not ready to start making decisions. I do not want to take my first step into this new world. I wanted to relish my old life for just one minute more. All four of my children were blissfully sound asleep beyond my door. Inside my room with the low-life insurance were being cut apart while dreaming, oblivious to the chaos.

"Ok, I said a small voice." Tell me what you know. By Please tell me what happened. "

"Bob and his crew were traveling on a road in Taji on a routine ride," David said. "Bob was in an Iraqi armored vehicle. We believe he was doing a stand-up at the moment, and they were hit by a [IED improvised] explosive device in an orchestrated offensive against the train. There was a gunfight after that, but none has been reached. Bob and cameraman Doug Vogt, have been flown by helicopter to Baghdad and are going for surgery.

"Apparently, he asked Vinnie, his producer, if he was alive, he'd arrived." David spoke coolly and rationally, but he was clearly rattled.

Then he spoke, I thought. He said. That will be fine. The General in my brain dictated that nothing less than the recovery would be acceptable. There were no other options. Bob would be okay. He was always good. He got lucky and bright and hardworking and a good man. Things like this do not happen to good people. I could feel the hope in my heart, in its most simple, clear and bright as the trace of a shooting. Hope is the most basic human feeling. It was the hope that women have had since the days of the caveman, when they sent their guys out to fight the fire after nomadic tribes. Hope it was good. He was a reaction of the brain stem. The General in my brain moved hope on the front lines, preparing for the next maneuver.

"Lee" David gently reminded me, "there are people on the ground of security to escort him out. The plane is standing by, you just need to tell us what you want to do. Let us know what time you want to go. When you get home, we are working to get to Germany, where Bob will be transported. "

For a moment the most ridiculous idea crossed my mind. I thought about how my children had wanted to ride the attraction Soarin 'and see the rest Epcot. The part of my brain that was still in shock weighed the option of not ruining your day perfectly planned for about a tenth of a second before I clicked into action.

"David, let me this process," he said. "I have people call from Bob and my family, and then I have to wake up the kids and packaging. And I need to think. Let me start off the hotel room so I can talk, and then I'll call you back soon possible. "

Since the hardcover.

Excerpt from an instant by Lee and Bob Woodruff Copyright © 2007 by Lee Woodruff. Extracted by permission of Random House Trade Paperbacks, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or copied without permission writing from the publisher.

Authors
Leeward and Bob Woodruff live in Westchester County, New York, with her four children. Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC World News in December 2005. On January 29, 2006, while reporting on the Iraqi security forces and U.S., Bob Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb hit their vehicle near Taji, Iraq. Lee Woodruff is a public relations executive and freelance writer.

For more information, please visit www.bobwoodrufffamilyfund.org or join the non-fiction e-newsletter by visiting newsletters.com.Orlando www.rh, Florida, January 28, 2006

There is a ride at Disney World called Tower of Terror, and the weekend of January 28, 2006, my four sons, twins of the same five years old, asked me to go on this ride and again.

Housed in a re-created aging Hollywood hotel, the ride begins where you climb into a creaky elevator that snakes through the store scary. A lightning storm kicks up and right on track something goes wrong with the power. The hotel's strange elevator suddenly falls. The descent is so rapid, so sudden that it almost sucks your diaphragm up into your throat, and just before the fall is not a time where you are literally suspended in air, too stunned to scream. It feels as if speed, movement, light and time literally freeze.

We've taken that ride a half dozen times. And then the feeling returned the next morning, as I crash in my king-size bed hotel. The previous day, the kids and I had been to Disney World's Animal Kingdom. We marveled at the African safari ride, rapids assembled in Asia, and how we got soaked howled our way down the water by the white man. After an early dinner we'd rented a pedal bike with another family and laughed until they cried as he ran other bikers around the lake, while fireworks exploded over the Epcot.

Fold four children to bed that night, I silently congratulated myself on a good weekend. I came to Disney to film a TV pilot for Family Entertainment. We spent two days on set and then the rest of time had been rewarding children: combing the parks for Disney character autographs for the twins and full of adrenaline for the older ones. We had planned fly back home on Sunday and get ready for school.

Toting around four children by myself was not new. That weekend my husband, Bob Woodruff, the newly anointed co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight, was thousands of miles away in Iraq. We talked to him briefly that day, between Safari and rapids ride. He and his team had a tiring day covering the Palestinian elections before flying to Baghdad before President Bush Speech State of the Union. The plan was to increase the coverage ABC's Iraq in an important moment in the war. The pace was blistering, common to any foreign correspondent who must keep moving and file stories from distant places in areas time of eight to twelve hours ahead of ours.

Bob and his crew were operating on an aggressive schedule, with only a few hours' sleep each night. As usual, the itinerary was punishing. Come in, come stories about the Iraqi military, anchor from Baghdad during Bush's speech, making some parts for the Good Morning America, and on the way back, trying to end an interview with the king of Jordan in Amman, capital of Jordan.

Our conversations with him from Disney World was short and sturdy. The cell service in Iraq has been tarnished and that the time difference was frustrating. We had a talk Saturday at noon, as he and his crew were going to bed at a military compound somewhere in Baghdad. He mumbled something about sleeping much needed depth in the next day. Exactly what he said no I register at this time. My daughter Cathryn was determined to buy a puka shell necklace. With my shoulder cradling the phone, I negotiated some cash from my wallet while keeping an eye on the twins, who were dangerously close to a fence in front of a grove of bamboo.

Later, Bob would swear that he told me was that he was going to embed with the military for some exercises, while I would swear that he said only that his team was going to relax during the day. At the end of our conversation I passed the phone around so the children could say hi. This was a common practice in our home – goodnight kisses, homework help, all via satellite. When your father covers news around the world, the phone becomes a primary communication tool, for better or for worse.

"You feel safe there?" I asked distractedly, picking up the change from Cathryn. "You okay?" It was a stupid rhetorical question, even more absurd by the fact that they were walking at Disney World " the happiest place on earth, "while he was somewhere in the most violent place on earth.

"I do. We are surrounded by the military. It's good," he reassured me. He and his cameraman Doug Vogt, could not know that the elevator was about to fall. Ocher-colored sands on a lonely road on the outskirts of Baghdad, who were about to enter their own Tower of Terror.

That night I turned on the receipt of a 7:00 wake-up call. With older children sleeping beside Twins, maybe I could slide down the next morning and take a quick dip in the pool before lunch. Even though it was January in Florida, the water was refreshing and would be a great way to start our last day in Orlando.

In a few days Bob would be home and we'd be a family again. Its appointment as co-anchor was a grueling pace for the past month, even on weekends. His days were filled with photo shoots, press conferences and campaigns advertising. The new program with Elizabeth Vargas and Bob is committed to go down in history, to have an anchor in the road and another in the studio as soon as possible. Bob relished the challenge. It was a new era at ABC News. There was an excitement in the broadcast, which was a welcome tonic after months of suffering illness after Peter Jennings and then death from lung cancer. Bob and Elizabeth would give the news department something to rally around, after feeling like a ship without its beloved captain.

"Just be through January," I said Bob, as he left for the Middle East on that fateful voyage. It became a kind of mantra for us after Ad, as he shot out the door as a newly minted co-anchor.

"I really do not want to leave you," he said, when He turned to the door frame of my home office, rolling in the handbag. He looked exhausted, distracted and not looking forward to getting on a plane to return Iraq for the sixth or seventh time in three years. The city car was already idling in the garage.

"Just get through January," I repeated, " and will have life in a more normal pattern. We'll have weekends again, and can be a family. "

He reeled off everything he had packed, waiting I find out what he could have lost. This was familiar territory, leaving it unspecified. Should have had more weight, but to give it more importance would have jinxed it in my mind. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza Strip: give him a kiss, as always, treat it like a normal morning, and he will return home safe and sound. I had a deadline to work that day, and the sooner I got him on the road as fast as I could finish my task.

Frankly, I do not think much about Bob over the Disney weekend either. The day was full and the kids eager to pack as much as possible. Bob drew sustenance from being on the road, stories, energy, the adrenaline rejuvenated him. He loved being a journalist, and that meant leaving them for periods of time. We may not have always liked, but had not done the peace with it as a family. Periods of being intensely together were interlaced with periods of being apart.

As I turned and turned off the bedside lamp that Saturday night at Disney World, I thought we all rise to this new challenge of Bob's career as well. "Co-anchor." It was good and bad. Well, because he had reached the pinnacle of his profession, a plum job in television news, the successor of a journalism icon. Bad, because we see it even more. Our definition time for the family that needs some revision.

The morning phone call pierced the silence and I agree with alarm a quilt of flowers and chintz in quarter totally unknown. It took me a second to register where I was. Oh right, I thought. Disney World. The wake-up call.

I flipped and caught up the receiver. "Thank you, I said, and lazily began to set him back in the crib. I had decided to stay there for a few more minutes before I snuck out the door.

"Lee?" A faint voice came from the receiver, now almost back in place. Geesh, I thought. Personalized wake-up calls, how very Disney. I brought the phone back to my ear to thank the man.

"Lee, David Westin, said the voice.

He had my immediate attention. My brain fired signals to my body I locked up pillows. The president of ABC News does not make social calls to the wives of workers at 7am on a Sunday morning, even a co-anchor's wife. I licked my lips and swallowed. My mouth was dry.

"We trying to reach it," he said, his voice slow measure. He paused for a beat, as if to assess how it could say his next line. "Bob was wounded in Iraq."

I sat straight up, trying to process the information I was hearing. Every synapse in my brain was firing. "Hurt?" I said to David Westin, as calmly as I could. "What do you mean wounded?"

"He was in a walking embed outside Baghdad with the Iraqi army. We do not have much information right now, Lee, but we are starting as soon as possible. We're getting the best care possible. "

"David." I interrupted. "My husband is alive? "

"Yes, Bob Lee is alive, but we believe it may have taken shrapnel in the brain."

I tried to digest what this meant and could not understand. He was alive, I start with that. The rest was gravy.

"What was an anchor doing a military exercise?" I asked, raising his voice. "The last thing I knew he was doing a story about an ice cream shop in Baghdad. I thought they were sleeping!" My mind has understood the facts, searching for what I knew or thought I knew. I was back at the Tower of Terror.

You do not know how you behave in a crisis, until it falls from the sky and beats down like a bandit: stealing your future, robbing you of your dreams, and mocking anything that resembles certainty. Sudden tragic events and even slow-burning disaster to teach us more about ourselves than most of us would like to know.

I felt the panic in my voice as I spoke to David Westin, and slow tears streaming down my face. At the same time, I began to feel a cold steel drain and calm in my brain. It slowly formed a cocoon in which I could think and react rationally, disembodied from my emotions. In the coming months, this cocoon will allow me to deal with the public nature of the crisis, synthesize information, deal with medical teams, communicate with family and taking care of business at hand without falling into a mass of bone coward.

For now, the calm of steel started to become a part of me that became the "General". The General would make important decisions, hold things for the troops, take charge, and – more important for our team – Ensuring that do not lose a single man on the battlefield. The general was beginning to assume.

"Lee, we have a plane waiting to take him home and children to Westchester "David said." You just have to tell us the time. It is stocked and ready to go. "

I felt I needed to keep him in line for some reason. I was not ready to start making decisions. I do not want to take my first step into this new world. I wanted relish my old life for just one minute more. All four of my children were blissfully sound asleep beyond my door. Inside my room with the little life insurance were being cut apart while dreaming, oblivious to the chaos.

"Ok, I said a small voice." Tell me what you know. Please tell me what happened. "

"Bob and his crew were traveling on a road in Taji on a routine ride," David said. "Bob was an Iraqi armored vehicle. We believe he was doing a stand-up at the moment, and they were hit by a [IED improvised] explosive device in an orchestrated attack on the train. There was shooting, then necessary, but neither was hit. Bob and cameraman Doug Vogt, have been flown by helicopter to Baghdad and are going for surgery.

"Apparently, he asked Vinnie, his producer, if he was alive, he'd arrived. "David spoke coolly and rationally, but he was clearly rattled.

Then he said, I thought. He said. That will be fine. The General in my brain dictated that nothing less than the recovery would be acceptable. There were no other options. Bob would be okay. He was always good. He got lucky and bright and hardworking and a good man. Things like this do not happen to good people. I could feel the hope in my heart, in his simplest level, clear and bright as the trace of a shooting. Hope is the most basic human feeling. It was hoped that women have had since the days of caveman, when they sent their guys out to fight the fire after nomadic tribes. Hope it was good. It was a reaction of the trunk brain. The General in my brain moved hope on the front lines, preparing for the next maneuver.

"Lee," David gently reminded me, "There are people on the ground of security to escort him out. The plane is standing by, you just tell us what you want done. Let us know what time you want to go. When you get home, we are working to get to Germany, where Bob will be transported. "

For a moment the thought silliest crossed my mind. I thought about how my children had wanted to ride the attraction Soarin 'and see the rest of Epcot. The part of my brain that was still in shock weighed the option of not ruining their perfectly planned days to about a tenth of a second before I clicked into action.

"David, let me process this, "he said." I have to call people from Bob and my family, and then I have to wake up the kids and packaging. And I need to think. Let me start off the hotel room so I can talk, and then I'll call you back as soon as possible. "

From editing hardcover.

Excerpt from an instant by Lee and Bob Woodruff Copyright © 2007 by Lee Woodruff. Excerpted by permission of Random House Trade Paperbacks, a division Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or copied without the written permission of the publisher.

Authors
Lee And Bob Woodruff live in Westchester County, New York, with her four children. Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC World News, in December 2005. On January 29, 2006, reporting Security forces in Iraq and the U.S., Bob Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb hit their vehicle near Taji, Iraq. Lee Woodruff is a public relations executive public and a freelance writer.

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For more information, please visit www.bobwoodrufffamilyfund.org or join the nonfiction e-newsletter by visiting www.rh-newsletters.com.

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