Mike Durant
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Do I owe somebody some money or something?
Well, I've heard that a lot, actually.
You know, I mean, I think the one universal emotion when people either watch Black Hawk Down or know what happened is anger, just frustration and wanting to do something about it.
And I think that was...
really what motivated a lot of people to say, look, you know, I want to get out there and try to help fix this.
You know, get into these organizations and go right these wrongs, I guess, because there were some wrongs here that, you know, it's pretty tough to get over.
And I appreciate your service as well.
Well, this whole immigration, I'll call it, of Somalis into our country has been bizarre.
There is a large concentration near Minneapolis.
I know that.
And there is also a large concentration in Maine.
One of my crew chiefs was from Lisbon, Maine, and very close to his hometown.
And I never quite understood that to begin with.
And I actually did a law enforcement event a year or so ago for undercover drug agents in Minnesota.
And they shared with me the challenges they have dealing with that particular community because a lot of them share the same name, so they can't figure out who's who.
There's no record of them, really, in terms of...
You know, this person was born here.
They're this old.
No means of really easily identifying them.
And they are involved in a lot of criminal activity.