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DONE?
ARE YOU HAPPY WITH WHAT HAS
HAPPENED SFWH WELL, PARTIALLY.
I'M HAPPY THAT HE IS RECEIVING
THE DEATH SENTENCE, HOWEVER,
LOOKING AT THE HISTORY,
INDIVIDUALS THAT RECEIVE THE
DEATH SENTENCE IN THE MILITARY,
THE LAST TIME SOMEONE WAS PUT TO
DEATH IS IN 1961 SO I DEFINITELY
DO NOT WANT HIM TO SIT AND WAIT
AND DIE OF OLD AGE.
I THINK THAT NOW IS THE TIME
THAT WE REALLY NEED TO GO AHEAD
AND FINISH THE PROCESS AND
ACTUALLY PUT HIM TO DEATH.
>> WELL, IN AN ODD WAY THAT MAY
BE WHAT HE WANTS.
HIS WHOLE BEHAVIORAL PATTERN
THROUGHOUT THE TRIAL, DEFENDING
HIMSELF AND PLAYING GAMES SEEM
TO BE GEARED TO WANTING TO GET
THE DEATH PENALTY AND WANTING TO
BE KILLED.
IS IT NOT A BETTER PUNISHMENT,
PERH
PERHAPS, THAT HE DOES SIT THERE
AND THINK WHAT HE DID FOR THE
REST OF HIS LIFE?
>> HE WANT TO BE PUT TO DEATH IN
THE BLAZE OF GLORY OF BATTLE.
AND YOU CAN TELL BY HIS ACTIONS
THROUGHOUT THE TRIAL, THAT HE IS
NOT GOING TO RECEIVE THAT
LUXURY, AND WHAT WE HAVE TO
PROVE AS A NATION AND AS A
GOVERNMENT THAT WE WILL NOT
ALLOW TERRORIST TO FLOURISH
WITHIN OUR UNIFORM SERVICES,
THAT'S WHY HE DESERVES TO BE PUT
TO DEATH.
HOWEVER, IF HE DOES NOT GET PUT
TO DEATH AND SERVING LIFE OR ON
DEATH ROW, THAN INSTEAD OF
ISOLATING HIM, PUT HIM IN
GENERAL POPULATION AND LET
THINGS FLOAT THEMSELVES OUT.
>> YOU KNEW HIM WELL.
YOU WERE IN CHARGE AS A COMBAT
MEDIC.
HE SHOT YOU SEVEN TIMES.
IT'S MIRACULOUS YOU SURVIVED
THIS.
WHAT WAS THE MOMENT LIKE FOR YOU
WHEN YOU TURNED AND REALIZED
THIS MAN YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW SO
WELL HAD TURNED ROGUE ENEMY?
>> WELL, IT WAS SHOCKING, AND
ACTUALLY, ONE OF THE SAFEST
PLACES YOU CAN BE IN OUR COUNTRY
IS A MILITARY BASE, SO FOR HIM
TO PERFORM THE ACTIONS HE DID
THAT DAY, THE FIRST THING THAT
CAME INTO ALL OF OUR MINDS WAS
HOW WE WERE GOING TO ELIMINATE
THE THREAT.
HE USED ELEMENT OF SURPRISE, AND
AFTER I GOT HIT THE FIRST TIME,
LIFE FLASHED IN FRONT OF MY
FACE, AND SO IT CAME TO A POINT
WHERE I HAD TO MAKE A DECISION,
WAS I GOING TO DIE OR WAS I
GOING TO GET UP AND FIGHT SNI
CHOSE TO GET UP AND FIGHT.
>> WHAT ARE THE LONG-STANDING
INJURIES YOU SUFFERED FROM THIS?
>> ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
ONES IS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS
DISORDER AND WITH POSTTRAUMATIC
STRESS DISORDER, I'M NO LONGER
THE SAME PERSON I WAS PRIOR TO
5, NOVEMBER 2009.
IN THE AFTERMATH IS THAT I'M A
DIFFERENT PERSON TO MY FAMILY
AND TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS THAT
WERE CLOSE TO ME --
>> IN WHAT WAY?
>> WELL, MY KIDS CANNOT COME UP
BEHIND ME AND SAY DAD I LOVE YOU
WITHOUT ANNOUNCING THEMSELVES.
I WON'T GO INTO A WALMART ON A
SATURDAY BY MYSELF, NOR WILL I
GO LATE AT NIGHT WHEN IT'S NOT
THAT CROWDED.
THE OTHER THING IS I HAVE
CONSTANT NIGHTMARES.
THERE ARE TIMES I'M SLEEPING AND
HAVING A NIGHTMARE AND MY WIFE
TRIES TO CONSOLE ME AND I'LL
PHYSICALLY KICK HER OUT OF THE
BED OR FIGHT BACK.
SO MY LOVED ONES HAVE TO BE
CAUTIOUS OF HOW THEY APPROACH
ME.
OR I'M ALWAYS IN A HIGH STATE OF
ALERTNESS WHERE BEFORE I GO TO
BED, WHEN I GO TO BED, I PATROL