Mike Durant

We ask for that, too, because they've been mortaring us almost every day the whole time.

And, you know, we're sandbagging the aircraft.

We're moving shit around, you know.

But we're living in a freaking— It's fucking crazy.

It is crazy.

Well, it will come full circle unless Aspen.

And, you know, I mean, he's another human being.

I don't wish him ill, but he ends up dying.

And people that know him, and we're getting ahead here, but I'll go ahead and finish this thought.

They flew me down to Bragg for the Delta Memorial.

And you've been there.

You've been there when the boots and the weapon and the helmet and the goggles are there representing the fallen.

And the families are there.

And we're all there.

And Les Aspin walks in.

I don't think he was—well, I know he wasn't prepared.

I mean, I don't think he'd ever seen any light in his life.

I don't think he ever saw this as anything but a chess match and a political chess match.

And when he—you could see it.

I mean, you could see the look on his face when he walked in that room and he realized, we fucked this up.