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News anchor Laurie Ott left her TV job at Channel 12 in Augusta Ga after covering the rehab unit for combat casualties at the local VA Medical Center. The facility at Augusta is the only one in the VA system that cares for those military disabled who are still on active duty as well as veterans. The ex-journalist Ott is now the program's full-time publicist, activist and fundraiser. Her program caught the eye of Col Jack Jacobs, the Medal of Honor recipient who is now an NBC News analyst. Jacobs switched roles from analyst to reporter for NBC's Making a Difference feature--although he, like Ott, turned into more of an advocate. The VA-Pentagon combo "should be a model for military rehab centers across the country," Jacobs editorialized.
As a journalist, Jacobs makes a fine soldier. His report lacked those indispensable ingredients of explaining the pros and cons of the set-up he was content merely to depict and recommend.
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