Mike Durant
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And now this time, they were all converging on our crash site.
And they all assaulted from the left side.
Did you hear him make his last stand?
No.
I just heard the shooting stop.
And then I could hear the voices.
And it's Somali voices.
And I'm like, this is it.
nothing you can do i'm out of rounds i've shot all the rounds out of gary's weapon why i never shot thought of my pistol i could not explain i never thought of it never thought of it at all i i to this day cannot explain why it probably saved my life that's what i was just going to say it's probably a good thing you didn't but i never drew it because i just didn't think of it so i've got the mp5 is laying there i got gary's weapon across my chest it's empty
I'm looking at the sky.
I can still remember the clouds.
And I'm just thinking, this is how it ends.
And that's how it was going to end, because they were... The only thing I've ever seen in my life that I think is comparable was the Seals and Fallujah on the bridge.
Not the Seals, but the contractors.
Contractors.
Yeah.
That, to me, is basically equivalent to what happened.
It was pandemonium.
I mean, it was things... I just, in my mind, having the benefit of, you know, grown up where I did and being an American and a Christian and...
What's right and wrong, I just couldn't imagine ever doing what they did.