Late last night HLN showed an unbelievable Iraqi insurgent video of an incredible Army medic, one PFC Stephen Tschiderer, being shot and jumping right back up to capture--and then treat--his would-be murderers. The tape was meant to be a training video--"Shooting Americans in the Back for Fun and Allah," I suppose--but the bullet was deflected by Tschiderer's thumb directly into his bulletproof vest. HLN's Alina Cho did a great job showing the video and translating the insurgents' whispers and prayers as they lined up Tschiderer in their sights. But the video is inexplicably difficult to find on the CNN website; the story was buried in an archive of video instead of being made a stand-alone feature. But check it out on ArmyTimes.com:
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-976420.php
This guy is a volunteer fireman when he's home on leave. He treated the wounds of the man who tried to kill him. But yesterday in prime time CNN did have an extensive on-set interview with the American skateboarder Danny Way, who jumped the Great Wall of China. So, you know. Priorities.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/09/state/n121106D92.DTL
