Mom Recognized Hand of Dying Soldier Son in ABC News Video

Mom Recognized Hand of Dying Soldier Son in ABC News Video
Emotional Meeting of Vanessa Adelson and Reporter Who Recorded Son's Death in Afghanistan

By KAREN RUSSO
NEW DELHI, India July 14, 2010
She recognized his hands. In the dark. In less than ten seconds. The way only a mother could.

That's why I met Vanessa Adelson, mother of Specialist Stephan Mace who died on Oct. 3, 2009. She had seen a soldier in a clip of video I had shot in almost complete darkness on the back of a Blackhawk helicopter. She was convinced it was her son.

A colleague in New York emailed me several months ago, asking about my story on the attack on Combat Outpost Keating, a small American base in eastern Afghanistan. I hadn't reported that specific story, but I had shot the medevac flight video used in it.

Vanessa had seen the piece and somehow, in watching just a few seconds of video, glimpsed one of the medevaced soldier's hands and knew it was Stephan. She connected with someone at ABC News who connected her with me.
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Mom Recognized Hand of Dying Soldier Son in ABC News Video