NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologized Wednesday,
February 4th, for “mistakenly” claiming he had been on a helicopter
that was shot down by ground fire in Iraq in 2003.
Williams
told the story in specific detail to David Letterman in 2013. The story surfaced
again recently after Williams took a soldier to a New York Rangers game and
inaccurate comments were made by the public address announcer leading to the
soldier- and Williams- receiving a standing ovation. Williams was also praised
on Facebook…until the actual helicopter’s flight engineer put up his own
Facebook post stating that he didn’t remember Williams “being on my
helicopter.” He did, however, remember Williams “walking up about an hour after
we had landed to ask me what had happened.”
The
flight engineer and other crew members told Stars & Stripes that Williams
was not in their helicopter that had been shot down but in one that arrived an
hour later.
This
led to Williams’ admission Wednesday on Facebook that he had been on the
later-arriving helicopter, not the one that had been hit. He said that viewing the video of the impact area “and the fog of memory over 12 years- made me
conflate the two, and I apologize.”
Well, I
remember how I forgot I wasn’t in the
Battle of the Bulge, so I can sympathize. I had read so much about it and seen
maps and diagrams of the area that I just naturally vividly remembered being
frozen and shot at by the Germans.
Additionally, I'm quite certain I was in the World Trade Center on the morning of September
11th, 2001, but that was over 13
years ago, so…
I have
at times also forgotten that I wasn’t on the Titanic or the Hindenburg. Lusitania?
I do know for certain, however, that I was on Apollo 13. You can trust me on that one.
Poor
Brian. He means well. He just wants us to kiss his butt.
I do know for certain, however, that I was on Apollo 13. You can trust me on that one.
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