The Woodruff Juggernaut

Yes, the Bob Woodruff Juggernaut rolls on -- most recently, in Detroit. Not that there's anything at all wrong with that.

In fact, there is a lot right with the way we are being re-introduced to the former ABC World News Tonight anchor who was gravely injured in an Iraqi blast early last year.

In the recent ABC special in which we got details of the blast, Woodruff's recovery, and the resulting book, producers wisely chose not to focus solely on Woodruff's ordeal. Not that an hour couldn't have been taken up with his story. It's just that a reporter is not supposed to be the story. It is undeniable that. were he not a celebrity, Woodruff's injury would have been worthy of no more attention than the tens of thousands of others that have occurred every day since the invasion.

So, the producers did the wise thing. They gave us roughly half an hour of Woodruff's story, then switched to the equally heartbreaking accounts of soldiers who have suffered disfiguring, life-altering injuries under similar circumstances. These soldiers have received far less attention than the regrettable death toll, and it was time to see a real generational tragedy up close. But not to be a total downer, we saw how the medical community is performing miracles daily on many of these soldiers and, yes, Woodruff himself. It was an admirable hour, and an emotional one as well.