Benjamin Corridor Says Anybody Can Overcome Life’s Hardest Obstacles: “Don’t Give Up, Simply Struggle For It”

Fox Information overseas correspondent Benjamin Corridor believes that everybody has the power to beat life’s best obstacles. He’s residing proof as he continues to battle again devastating accidents sustained whereas protecting final yr’s protection of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“After we do issues collectively as a group and group, something will be overcome,” Corridor mentioned on Friday on Fox & Buddies.

Because the car he was in was hit in Ukraine, Corridor has had round 30 surgical procedures, misplaced a leg on one facet and a foot on the opposite, and has misplaced the operate of a hand and eye. He appeared reside to speak about his upcoming memoir, Saved: A Struggle Reporter’s Mission To Make It Residence, which hits shops subsequent week and will likely be crammed with numerous particulars of his journey.

Together with his prosthetic leg on full show, Corridor – who was rescued from the fight zone by the non-profit group Save Our Allies, led by a “Particular Operations and Intelligence Veteran” – defined that his father was as soon as rescued by American forces whereas he was in Korea served .

FOX NEWS’ BENJAMIN HALL IS NOT WORRY ABOUT NEAR-FATAL INJURIES WHEN SURROUNDED BY WIFE AND THREE DAUGHTERS

Saved: A Struggle Reporters’ Mission To Make It Residence will likely be stocked in shops and pre-orders on March 14th. (HarperCollins Publishers)

“We’re a household that has been saved repeatedly so the responsibility to our nation and the navy and what they’ve completed is immense,” Corridor mentioned.

“It led me to journey, I wished to expertise the world. I wished extremes of human expertise and I began my job as a result of I wished journey, I wished to see completely different locations,” Corridor continued. “However once you begin protecting wars, it goes to a different stage.”

Corridor was severely wounded final yr whereas protecting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when a car he was touring in was hit by approaching fireplace in Horenka, outdoors Kiev. Well-liked Fox Information photojournalist Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova had been killed within the assault that devastated Fox Information and the complete journalism business. Corridor was the only survivor.

FOX NEWS’ BENJAMIN HALL CALLS ON VIEWERS TO ‘NEVER GIVE UP’ IN THE EMOTIONAL RETURN TO LIVE TELEVISION

Fox Information overseas correspondent Benjamin Corridor appeared reside on “FOX & Buddies” on Friday. (Fox Information)

“While you begin protecting wars, it goes to a different stage, you see how essential it’s,” Corridor mentioned. “However I additionally take into consideration my dad day-after-day and my restoration was simply as essential to him because it was to everybody else.”

“FOX & Buddies” co-host Steve Doocy then requested Corridor what he was in a position to do throughout his year-long restoration, which stunned him.

“Properly I believe the power to remain sturdy, figuring out that you simply’re going to undergo a few of the hardest instances of your life, each bodily and mentally, however figuring out if you happen to’re focusing laborious, when you have sufficient willpower when You may have sufficient religion and belief and you will get via something,” Corridor mentioned.

“I used to be amazed on the stage you will discover in your self,” he continued. “I by no means thought I had it earlier than, however I firmly imagine all of us have it. If you happen to’re going via one thing troublesome in life, don’t surrender, simply battle for it and you may navigate via it, and I imagine that with all my coronary heart.”

BENJAMIN HALL SURPRISES FOX NEWS COLLEAGUES WITH MOVING WORDS 6 MONTHS AFTER DEATHLY ATTACK IN UKRAINE

Corridor delivered a message for Fox Information viewers who’ve supported him for the reason that tragic assault.

“I’ve felt from all of you that at each step I’ve been despatched hundreds of prayers and letters, books and I’ve learn each considered one of them, and I’m having a tough time. If you realize somebody who’s going via a troublesome time, get out,” Corridor mentioned. “It’s essential, I’m residing proof of it, and I’ve felt each single a kind of messages. So it’s also a giant thanks to all our viewers.”

Saved: A Struggle Reporter’s Mission to Make It Residence will likely be out there on March 14th the place books are bought.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Fox Information’ Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.

Brian Flood is a media reporter for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas will be despatched to [email protected] and on Twitter: @briansflood.

Supply