“Diversity”: Benjamin Hall that takes a recovery call

On March 14, 2022, Fox News correspondent Benjamin Ball and his crew, which covered the war in Ukraine, went to the front -city Horenko with two Ukrainian soldiers when their car was impressed with Russian missiles.

“I reached for the door of the car, and I managed to get one foot out of the door,” Hall said. “And then the third bomb hit the car. And I was for, I'm not sure how long, but I woke up and I should be about 15, 20 feet from the car. I was on fire.

“I started gathering where I was and what happened. I was confused because I had no pants and shoes. I didn't quite realize that it burned. And, you know, my right leg was largely undermined.

He marked the car that took it to the Ukrainian hospital. “It was the last I remember,” he said. “I think at this point I was barely alive.”

I asked, “When did you understand the degree of your injuries?”

“You know, I didn't,” Hall said. “For example, the left leg that I really didn't realize. Only later did I see a picture made at the hospital that just has a baseball size hole in the center and completely gone. But I didn't notice it. Bleeding from my head but didn't know how much my skull was bred.

He was the only survivor. Long -time Fox News operator Pierre Zakrzhevsky and local producer Sasha Kuvinova were killed. Not having a place in the car, they decided to go without their own Fox safety.

I asked, “You juggle a lot, and adrenaline pushes and you are against terms. Were mistakes?”

“No, I don't think,” the Hall replied. “We have a routine we are watching. You know where you go and talk about it as a team, and here's what we did that day. Look, Pierre and Sasha died. Do I want to turn it on? Do I want am i to go back?

The Hall documented the dramatic and tragic events in his book “SAVED”, which in detail about how Fox News helped to get to him in a train aimed at the Polish border, where the US military was waiting. “I was removed from that train at the other end and Was this Blackhok, 82 -Y Air. I felt that I was absolutely rescued. ”

A military correspondent, a double citizen of the United Kingdom and the US, began to chronize his own battle. The Hall's journey to the recovery delivered him from Poland, Germany, to the Medical Center of the Brooke Army in Texas, constantly from his wife Alicia Meller and their three daughters in London.

When last year on Sunday, he met with his family, they were preparing to welcome a new child and adapt to changed reality.

I asked Alissia, “Were the times when you were preparing for the worst with him?”

“On the first night, when I called, I really thought he would probably die honestly,” she replied. “I think, when such a thing happens, you expect, for example, with the worst scenario, and you may be ready to death about surgery, which, you know, is associated with a person who has an injury.“

“To You called something with something, I don't think you always understand what you are capable of, ”she said, addressing her husband.

He survived about 40 operations, and hundreds of hours of physiotherapy, writing about it also in a new book about the power of stability. “Diversity: How do we people continue to find ways to defeat the most striking chances” will be published on March 18.

“You are suddenly open to do anything,” Hall said. “And when the doctor comes and says,” We apply leeches, we're going to take a thumb, we're going to put on his elbow: “Bring it! Whatever you have to return me home, make me walk, bring me back to your Children I will do it and I will not complain about it. ”

He accepted the challenge, even a new inappropriate eye. “The only lens they left was blue,” he said. “And they said,” We can go to find you brown. “And I said,” Give me that David Bowie, I want you know? “So I love my eyes.

“Why do you want people to ask about injuries?” I asked.

“You know, I don't think I spent a lot of time thinking about what it is to be disabled. So I probably want to do it to help others feel natural.”

On his first day in the London Bureau, he told the Fox to the audience: “I am believing that if you knock you down, you will leave and deal with it and continue to return.”

Reminders of the tragedy are always present; Fox devoted his Bureau of Zakrzhevsky after the death attack.

Sasha Kuvinov's parents sue Fox News, claiming illegal death in their trial.

I asked the Hallet: “They called you, your book, as a memorized story, which, in their opinion, is a false story about how close you were, whether you should be as close.”

“Listen, I came home to my family, I came home to my children; they lost my daughter. But when it comes to my book, I sat down for a few days and I started writing what happened. I wanted to People read about what happened because I wanted to talk about Pierre and Sasha and the strange work they did, and about the war that we covered. “

“How was the memory of this lawsuit. The accusation is that HarperCollins is a subsidiary company of the same maternal company that Fox pursues its story through you?”

“I suppose,” Hall said. “Of course, I didn't see how it was going.”

His priorities have changed the heavy trials – and the family is more important. Asked if he thinks he had fully processed what happened, the lobby replied: “Yes, I have. The processing does not mean him gone. Pierre and Sasha died. I don't want to fully recycle This. I always want it.

“What do you think about the conflict report today?”

“Oh, more important than if it is,” Hall said. “I loved my career. I liked what I was doing and as a result I would get these injuries. I would change everything to return Pierre and Sasha back into my heart. But I think this is the most important job in our Field, honestly.

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History prepared by Nikoela Buffana. Editor: Brian Robins.

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