WEBVTT 00:05.800 --> 00:09.900 Rain rain any bells. So the george if you probably not you'll 00:09.900 --> 00:13.810 probably remember december seventh nineteen forty one or september 00:13.810 --> 00:17.840 eleventh two thousand one. However october twenty third nineteen 00:17.840 --> 00:21.450 eighty three is just a significant in our country's history as 00:21.450 --> 00:25.480 well as our course many argue it's the day the war on terror 00:25.480 --> 00:27.620 truly began. Been. 00:28.340 --> 00:31.380 The Was a sunday morning. 00:31.980 --> 00:35.100 And just like many sundays the marines or enjoying a couple extra 00:35.130 --> 00:38.110 hours of sleep during their deployment to be rude Levin are. 00:38.840 --> 00:41.980 Dave mid-air as was a private first class who are just finished 00:41.980 --> 00:43.650 up is motor transport force. 00:44.310 --> 00:48.220 This final test was scheduled for monday work epics exterior of. 00:49.630 --> 00:50.620 On sunday morning. 00:51.420 --> 00:55.530 The In a rear end cheapy tap sleeping on cots in a looked around. 00:56.080 --> 00:56.740 Sort it. 00:57.730 --> 00:59.070 All these guys are still sleek. 01:00.500 --> 01:04.150 Then probably for world. First terms of my life lectures to go 01:04.150 --> 01:05.000 back to sleep. 01:06.410 --> 01:09.900 Versus the Which is a rare occasion own do that off. 01:10.710 --> 01:14.220 The each entry mark arc a low was serving as a platoon hospital 01:14.220 --> 01:17.480 corps men with Bravo company position on the southern end of 01:17.480 --> 01:22.140 the airport I and then disliked terribly long and so I was pretty 01:22.140 --> 01:25.860 down now major bob Jordan was the marine spokesman for the twenty 01:25.860 --> 01:27.550 force marine amphibious unit. 01:28.260 --> 01:31.880 He was with his crew. And these fire truck days not far from 01:31.880 --> 01:33.160 the prt headquarters. 01:33.770 --> 01:38.850 Six o'clock I woke up we're normal time a good see the Sunshiny 01:38.850 --> 01:42.320 through the locals are the core gated or the fire bait or. 01:42.850 --> 01:43.640 Where we slept. 01:44.690 --> 01:48.750 Sure rolled away from the door and for my area movie blaken up 01:48.750 --> 01:53.350 over major patrick to more we station is to try and managing 01:53.350 --> 01:53.840 want a. 01:54.770 --> 01:57.430 Lieutenant Colonel they're eager like the commanding officer 01:57.430 --> 01:59.910 of one eight was in the prt headquarters. 02:00.500 --> 02:03.370 It was both is command post in despair X. 02:04.070 --> 02:05.580 Around six twenty a M. 02:06.540 --> 02:07.580 Everything. Geraint. 02:13.300 --> 02:16.340 You see vagaries was no longer sleeping under ten. 02:17.420 --> 02:20.760 Petty officer hardline major Jordan. We're now widely. 02:21.740 --> 02:24.960 Colonel per like was no longer in that the L T building. 02:25.690 --> 02:28.720 What was the largest non nuclear explosion on the planet. 02:29.300 --> 02:30.740 The just like to building out. 02:31.400 --> 02:34.820 A twelve thousand pound explosion that would bring for decades. 02:35.400 --> 02:39.640 America lost two hundred and forty one marines sailors and soldiers 02:39.640 --> 02:43.720 in the rubble that day terrorists finally landed a powerful hit 02:44.050 --> 02:46.750 that's their playbook rebuilt their playbook in. 02:47.370 --> 02:49.760 Overtime and then do our. 02:50.730 --> 02:52.260 I would call it like a cock. 02:52.950 --> 02:57.970 Of caught who is following their own ideology and they're building 02:57.970 --> 03:01.300 their playbook based on how we respond a certain. Flex. 03:03.500 --> 03:06.990 I mean they're they're taken notes one them arrange Paula the 03:06.990 --> 03:11.660 nineteen eighty four or some of them live that many others were watching. 03:13.330 --> 03:15.420 They attestive national terribly. 03:16.600 --> 03:19.380 The best of the duration with a attestive. 03:20.160 --> 03:21.480 Call the ruling. 03:22.120 --> 03:26.240 America's defenses playbook was re written but the punches kept rolling. 03:27.210 --> 03:30.810 Called barcap hours in Saudi aarabia USS Cole in. Yemen. 03:36.160 --> 03:39.950 Three that the shioji prevention ushering and mission that isn't 03:39.950 --> 03:41.720 an posture we want to take. 03:42.420 --> 03:43.890 In the United States. 03:44.500 --> 03:45.500 They're going. 03:47.730 --> 03:50.380 At like that S the people that think that way. 03:51.310 --> 03:55.140 To come down the jacksonville and stand their next to a mother 03:55.400 --> 03:57.960 and lost one other kids and they were. 03:58.900 --> 04:02.880 And exploring tour how we should take a pre vent their posture. 04:04.080 --> 04:05.650 To us Stewart's. 04:06.170 --> 04:10.690 To sleek september elaborated the extremist agenda had an exclamation 04:10.690 --> 04:14.800 point in a U.S. launched combat operations. What's now known 04:14.800 --> 04:19.170 as the global war on terror and that they would veterans say 04:19.170 --> 04:21.750 it should have been declared more than two decades ago. 04:22.460 --> 04:25.550 With the event that now simply hangs in the distant backdrop 04:25.550 --> 04:28.950 of time in the United States a lot of times we falsely. 04:29.500 --> 04:33.420 There do some and they let it die out neurone. We're all excited 04:33.420 --> 04:35.480 about you know the pro suggestion leaner. 04:36.000 --> 04:39.650 Are for you know whatever the topic of the day years. We've toll 04:39.650 --> 04:40.500 we lose sight. 04:41.840 --> 04:45.690 Of of an issue that really has a lot of substance tour. 04:46.330 --> 04:48.360 I think many of us wonder ahead we. 04:48.910 --> 04:52.360 Taken a firm stance and a firm response at that time. 04:53.220 --> 04:56.480 All these other attacks to took place in the coming decade would 04:56.480 --> 04:57.500 they have been tried. 04:58.070 --> 05:02.710 A within ten to a All of the be rude veterans. We interviewed 05:02.710 --> 05:06.510 live by a common motto of our first duty is to remember. 05:07.360 --> 05:10.830 Lieutenant Colonel curl lock. Still remembers he still in a wheelchair 05:10.830 --> 05:14.870 because of it he doesn't remember the blast itself. He tributes 05:14.870 --> 05:18.030 that last memory to the large piece of concrete they had to remove 05:18.030 --> 05:21.410 from its head after he was blown out of the B R T building. 05:22.130 --> 05:25.490 But he remembers is fella marines and sailors from that day and 05:25.490 --> 05:27.590 he says the fight is still on. 05:28.110 --> 05:28.710 A war. 05:30.800 --> 05:34.960 Am wide down. Well with we if we don't take it Stan. 05:35.500 --> 05:39.130 And just aversion will would've have an world war two of how 05:39.130 --> 05:40.870 they're with a turnaround although the wars. 05:41.500 --> 05:42.370 If you. 05:43.530 --> 05:47.770 Major Jordan says victory is in the memories veterans these behind 05:47.920 --> 05:52.750 rivers and is the same we still against are we still. Youngster. 05:54.500 --> 05:55.710 Are we have to remember. 05:56.410 --> 06:01.520 Make the people who hooves at home to wish us harm so. 06:02.080 --> 06:04.580 They need to know that we were not the feeder that they weren't. 06:06.050 --> 06:07.510 We're still here it's. 06:08.090 --> 06:09.960 Out there are signs of our daughter. 06:10.870 --> 06:12.640 And our grandsons of our granddaughter. 06:13.860 --> 06:14.810 Simply told wish. 06:16.230 --> 06:19.270 As they will be here for generations to the future and that's 06:19.270 --> 06:20.130 the hope of over. 06:21.000 --> 06:27.590 The came in he was and now their welcome on the use such a..