An ABC camerman was out today (Wednesday 1/26) with Marines on patrol when they were ambushed. The camerman kept shooting film throughout the entire fight, in which one of the U.S. Marines he'd been chatting with moments before lost his life.
Apparently the cameraman was so crazy-brave in keeping his camera rolling that Bill Dolan interviewed HIM on ABC News, and I expect it will be shown again at 11 PM tonight. The cameraman was really ashen, and spoke very movingly about the dead Marine, how the Marines were the same age as his kids, how this day has changed his life as it has, obviously and more devastatingly, changed the lives of all those who were waiting for this young Marine to come home.
It's an uncommonly moving interview, and not likely to be shown a lot because, well, it shows what the damn war is really about.
The cameraman, Joe Tesauro, 47, from Long Island, is my dear friend, a terrific human being, and my wife's first cousin. May he reach home safely.