David Wood Of The Huffington Post Wins A Pulitzer Prize For His 10 Part Series "Beyond The Battlefield"

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Huffington Post Awarded Pulitzer Prize -- Huffington Post

NEW YORK -- Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto medical evacuation helicopters and, he said, "go off in a cloud of dust." But after their sacrifice on the battlefield, Wood said, "you never know what happened to them."

So for eight months this past year, Wood reported extensively on the lives of severely wounded veterans and their families in "Beyond the Battlefield", a 10-part series awarded Monday with the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. Wood's Pulitzer marks the first win for the seven-year-old Huffington Post and a milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee's recognition of online-only news organizations.

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My Comment: I have been reading David Wood's columns for years, and it is a joy to see him receive this recognition.

"Beyond The Battlefield" is what he is being recognized for, and it is a 10 part series that examines the lives of our wounded soldiers when they return home for treatment and recuperation. This is an excellent piece of work, and it can be viewed here.