Dawn of Man.
“All of a sudden this guy just jumps out of a tree and
starts running across the Veldt on two legs. I scribbled my thoughts on a
stone, but someone picked up the damn thing and threw it at the running guy.”
Crucifixion of Christ.
“It was a moment all journalists face at some point in their
careers. Do I record the event or do I intervene? I decided it was more
important that the rest of the world hear this amazing story than get stabbed
by a spear. Those Roman soldiers didn’t play around.”
The American Revolution.
“I was embedded with colonial troops under the command of
William Prescott at Bunker Hill. We put up a valiant effort against the pesky
Brits, but eventually had to retreat. That’s what I was told, as I had
retreated to the Cock and Hound pub earlier to gather my faculties.”
The Civil War.
“Bullets whizzed by me as I crouched behind a tree stump at
Gettysburg. Fortunately, General Grant was hiding with me and I got one of the
best interviews of my life. He was drunk, of course, but so damn genuine.”
World War I.
“I was in the trenches on the Western Front. The Germans
were lobbing grenades and insults from a nearby position when I suddenly found
myself at the wrong end of a bayonet. Fortunately, it was one of our guys
accusing me of being a coward. When I explained I was a journalist covering the
war, he laughed so hard and so loud he was picked off by a German sniper.”
World War II.
“Although I covered the war from a fortified bunker in
Manhattan, I can tell you that I saw pictures of dead and wounded soldiers that
would rip your heart out. I wrote a
dispatch about one of my tears falling on a grainy photo taken at the Battle of
the Bulge.”
Watts, Selma, Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan…yeah, that’s
right. O’Reilly was there!
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