Journalists Injured

Six weeks after being seriously injured in an Iraqi explosion, ABC News' Bob Woodruff, shown in an undated photo, was released from Bethesda Medical Center on March 16, 2006. The 44-year-old, who has been up and about, talking and joking with family and watching the news, will continue his recovery at a private facility in the New York City area, ABC News President David Westin said.

Maj. Denise Irizarry, a nurse on the Critical Care Air Transport Team aboard a C17 military aircraft, talks with ABC cameraman Doug Vogt during a 10-hour flight Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006, from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Vogt checked out of Bethesda Medical Center on Feb. 23, and returned to France, where he will undergo further treatment.

David Woodruff, brother of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, talks to the press about the condition of his sibling and cameraman Doug Vogt at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006. Woodruff and Vogt were seriously injured near Baghdad on Sunday, Jan. 29.

A person identified by U.S. military personnel as ABC anchorman Bob Woodruff is carried on a stretcher from a bus to a C-17 Globemaster medical evacuation plane at Ramstein airbase, southern Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 to be brought to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside blast near Baghdad two days earlier.

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff reports from the Middle East. Woodruff and his award-winning cameraman Doug Vogt have undergone surgery after being seriously injured in a roadside bombing 12 miles north of Baghdad on Jan. 29, 2006. The journalists were standing up in the hatch of an Iraqi armored vehicle that was hit by the blast. They were wearing body armor and helmets. No one else was hurt.

Cameraman Doug Vogt, shown in an undated photo, and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in an explosion while reporting from Iraq. Vogt is a three-time Emmy Award-winning cameraman who was born in Alberta. He was recently in another convoy in which someone was killed by a roadside bomb, but he wasn't injured in that incident.

"When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me," Bob Woodruff told The AP in a recent interview. The ABC News co-anchor and a cameraman were seriously injured near Taji, Iraq on Jan. 29, 2006, when the Iraqi Army vehicle they were traveling in was attacked and an explosive device went off.

ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff speaks during the ABC executive Q&A segment of the Television Critics Assoc. Press Tour on Jan. 21, 2006, in Pasadena, Calif. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 26 in an attack and roadside bomb blast that targeted their joint U.S.-Iraqi military convoy near Taji, Iraq.

ABC News Anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff speak during the ABC executive question and answer segment of the Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Jan. 21, 2006, in Pasadena, Calif. Vargas and Woodruff were named to replace the late Peter Jennings in early January 2006.

ABC News President David Westin, left, speaks as Bob Woodruff, center, and Elizabeth Vargas listen during a news conference announcing that Vargas and Woodruff will replace the late Peter Jennings as co-anchors of ABC World News Tonight, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, in New York. The network also said that the second-ranked network evening newscast would be the first to broadcast live in three time zones.

Bob Woodruff is shown during a news conference after the announcement that he and Elizabeth Vargas will co-anchor ABC "World News Tonight," replacing the late Peter Jennings, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, in New York. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in an explosion while reporting from Iraq. They are being treated for head injuries at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq.

News anchor Bob Woodruff poses in ABC's "World News Tonight" studio, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, in New York. Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in an explosion while reporting from Iraq. The journalists were traveling with an Iraqi combat unit and were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division. They were in an Iraqi mechanized vehicle when they hit a roadside bomb.

ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff, shown in a 2001 file photo, and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq. They were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling with an Iraqi mechanized vehicle.

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff reports from Iran in December 2005. Woodruff, 44, was named co-anchor of ABC News' "World News Tonight" with Elizabeth Vargas in January 2006, after the death of Peter Jennings. In an unusual approach to evening news shows, one of the two co-anchors typically reports from the studio in New York while the other reports from the field, as Woodruff was doing in Iraq.

Emmy Award-winning Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt, shown, and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff were hurt in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Jan. 29, 2006. Vogt has been a professional cameraman for 25 years, the last 20 based in Europe. He has covered global events for CBC, BBC and ABC in his career including the tsunami in Sri Lanka and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Croatia, Bosnia and Somalia.

Bob Woodruff was named co-anchor of ABC News' "World News Tonight" in early January 2006. The 44-year-old is married with four children. He grew up in Michigan and became a corporate lawyer in New York. He took leave to teach at a school in China, helped CBS News during the Tiananmen Square uprising and became hooked on journalism.