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January 29, 2007 For
Immediate Release Contact: 800-928-6307
Time Magazine Sr. Correspondent, Author Michael Weisskopf Joins Panel
Arlington,
VA – The GI Film Festival announced today that New York Times bestselling author and TIME magazine Senior
Correspondent Michael Weisskopf will participate in the festival’s
“War Stories” panel discussion, which will feature tales of heroism
from the front lines. Michael
Weisskopf is the senior correspondent for TIME in the magazine's
Washington, D.C. bureau, covering national politics and investigations,
and most recently, the ongoing war in Iraq. While reporting TIME's "Person of the Year" story in December, 2003, Weisskopf threw a live Iraqi hand grenade from a U.S. Army humvee, saving himself, TIME's photographer and four soldiers, but losing his right hand. Weisskopf’s experience in Iraq, and his recovery in Ward 57 of Walter Reed Hospital, prompted him to write his bestselling book, BLOOD BROTHERS: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57. In
BLOOD BROTHERS, Weisskopf describes his return to a life entirely
different from the one he left behind.
Along with Sergeant First Class Luis Manuel Rodriguez, Corporal
Bobby Isaacs, Sergeant Pete Damon, and the other soldiers of Ward 57, he
faced a daunting set of challenges—both physical and emotional. For
his Iraq stories, Weisskopf has won the National Headliners Award, The
Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism, honorable
mention from the Overseas Press Club and two nominations for the National
Magazine Award. He is also a
Pulitzer Prize finalist.
For
more information on Michael Weisskopf and his book, BLOOD BROTHERS, please
visit, http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brothers-Among-Soldiers-Ward/dp/0805078606.
For
more information on the GI Film Festival, please visit: www.gifilmfestival.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “While Weisskopf could have written an interesting book simply about his own experience, he has written an even better one by including accounts of three soldiers undergoing treatment at the same time . . . Weisskopf recognizes his own experience in that of the soldiers, making for a wonderful story of tragedy and recovery.” —Library Journal, starred review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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