Mike Durant
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And they dedicated it to me from him.
So I'm thinking, all right, Cliff and Donovan are okay.
Anyway, this goes on.
Soon as the Red Cross, Suzanne leaves, they follow it up with two reporters from the Guardian, which is a paper, I think, out of Paris.
And reporters.
Man, I am freaking vulnerable at this point.
I just wrote a letter to home.
And I let my guard down a little bit.
Were they smart enough to come up with that strategy?
I don't know.
But I thought about, OK, if I tell them what happened from the moment the RPG hits the aircraft, nothing wrong with that.
That's intelligence that will help
maybe solve some part of this puzzle for our guys.
So I said, all right, I'll tell you what happened from the moment the RPG hit the aircraft.
So I go through it all.
And then at the end, they said, you know, I've been talking for a while and they said,
What do you think's going on here?
And I said, the only thing I said in captivity that I would take back if I could, and it isn't that big a deal, you don't have to be a freaking rocket scientist, but I felt if I screwed something up, this was it.
I said, something's gone wrong here.
Yeah, something had freaking gone wrong.