good day tomorrow, that was benji s affect throughout this entire process. he is one of the most resilient individuals i have ever met. on the day this happened i was sitting on the grounds i had no leg. i could not reach anyone, phones were not working one thing i thought, that was i have to go home. whenever it takes i m going back to see the famlize. thfamily, what is what every has been about, that is today. hello. good to see you walking. remember, texting benji with a, hey brother, i m going to miss you. you are ultimate human return on investment. see you
lines. yeah, [ bleep ] myself a couple of times. grow up traveling the world and going in and out of war zones and it s somewhat selfish and putting yourself on the line and alicia taught me there was more to it. my name is iow alicia and i m benjamin hall s wife. i met benji and he was a freelancer. he did dangerous things equationally or a dot occasionally or a lot but didn t matter because he love what had he did. we went to school together from 4-7. that s where i first met him. he was only there for a couple of years and then went to a different school but i continued on that school. many years laterrives wandering through london and someone came up to me and said
very few details but teams on the ground are working as hard as they can to try and gather more information i was sitting at the pub drinking a pint and reading a book on iraq. so i was at the pub pouring pints and this guy was read ago book about iraq so i went up to him and said, see you re read ago book about iraq. my name s rick. i want to be a war photographer. he said, oh, that s funny. my name s benji and i wanted to bwant to be a want to be a wr correspondent and said i m going in two weeks, do you want to come? i said [ bleep ] of course i do.
i went up stairs, shut ut door and waits, 2:00 about the morning suzanne called and said he is out of surgery here, is conscious. he lost his leg. i remember just thinking, like. oh, thank goodness. we could deal with that, that is fine. one thing that was going through my mind, the whole time, is when benji and i went to libya, i sent an e-mail to tim that day, saying, we ll see new 24 hours. we got told that tim was killed. somebody said, even the cool guys get hit. that just rang in my head when benji not hit. i ll say it once, le benji is cool at hell, right, that hit home. even cool guys get hit. i asked and he by himself. , she said jacques is with him. jacques cause not want to be interviewed about the evacuation, i think it is
person, i wanted to irritate him with messages. everyone else in the kitchen at the time is fine. gosh, rick. i can t begin to describe rick. i didn t go to the hospital. blame 8 litt only time i get emotional is when i think about certain people who have been so kind to us. sorry. rick. is amazing. he absolutely stepped in when benji has been away, he didn t need to be asked. there are some people you can trust with your life. and who you turn to in some dark times, he was there the day after this happened to hold my children, whatever he could. i flew on landstuhl to see benjis, you don t notice