Jim: The James Foley Story Page #4

total shock, you know, and then just...

What are we gonna do, and then anger.

After all we're family, you know?

[Jim] You're so humble.

You lost everything,

your freedom, your control, your ability to

talk to anybody and tell anybody you're okay,

thinking one minute, "Oh, yeah,

I'm a foreign correspondent,

and the next minute somebody who you

respect killed, and you have nothing."

[Clare] Jim was concerned

that his own competitiveness

with Manu, with Anton, with himself,

his own, sort of macho aggressiveness

had driven him to make decisions

that were not the best decisions.

We were all questioning our judgment.

One of the main things that affected

all of us is that Anton had kids

and none of us do.

[Jim] Every day I have to deal

with the fact that Anton is not

going to ever see his

three kids anymore,

and I was part of that decision-making

process... that took him away,

that took him away from

his kids, and his wife.

[Jim] And I had a lot of time

to play over those moments,

especially that one day

when we were captured.

I tried to question myself, "What are your

reporting on, what is this all about?"

It was quickly apparent that

this was about being what

you think is an authentic

conflict correspondent,

seeing the front line and it not

being enough to just see it

from a distance, but to

push it to the next level.

You were basically waiting to get

shelled and the question is, why?

You know, why are you doing this?

[Michael] A lot of us were just scratching

our head, right? There's no money.

Maybe you get a story here

or there that you sell.

You know I used to

"loan him money."

You know, my credit report has one ding on it and

it's the one loan that I co-signed with Jim.

I think Jimmy was just a little

outside the lines, you know.

Well, he was wicked disorganized.

[Mark]

We had to tell him to come to dinner.

Like if dinner was at 5:00,

we'd tell him it was at 3:00,

so he'd show up at 5:00.

He always lives in the moment.

I don't know if Mike ever told you

that Jim was late to his wedding.

"John, can I sleep at your house?" "John,

can my friend stay at your house?"

"Yes, Jim, yes."

Even though you just were like, "Jim, just

wake up! Wake up! What are you doing?

Get a real job, start

saving up for retirement."

I remember I said like, you know, why don't

you come to Chicago, my dad runs this

boot camp, it's teaching young felons.

He goes there for the interview and

I call him afterwards and I'm like,

"How'd the interview go?" He's like "Oh,

it was great, I think it went great."

I call up my dad, and he goes,

"He said it went great, did he?

'Cause I just talked to the lady at the

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