It was one of the scariest moments in my life one of which I will never forget, I can only thank god and be grateful for making it out of there. I was only a kid at the time but I learned what it took to be a man and to act accordingly during my tour of duty. But this experience was by far the worst and will haunt me until the day I die. …showed first 75 words of 3285 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3285 total…of - Bauer, Valdez and me. Bauer had been sitting the farthest away, so he was the last one to reach the helicopter. But then, as I recall, Valdez paused at the tail of the helicopter to snap a picture. In fact, I think he snapped two. And at that as we rose above the crowd, we could only look down and thank god that we had climbed out of that mess and had prevailed.