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Well, I'm about to
introduce you to a guy who has a new book out, it's called
Lone Survivor. He was a Navy SEAL. He has a story that he's
going to tell you here in the next few minutes that should
shock, horrify,
and quite honestly
just -- it should anger you. I have a very good friend who
is in the middle of reading Lone Survivor, he called me up
last night it was about 11 o'clock. And I've never heard him
like this. He was angry. And he said, "Glenn, I can't
believe these weasels in Washington." I'm going to let
Marcus Luttrell tell you the story. He's on with us now.
Marcus, how are you, sir?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir, how are you?
GLENN: Very good.
You -- take us back to Afghanistan. You are a Navy SEAL. How
long have you been a Navy SEAL before 9/11?
LUTTRELL: Almost
ten years, sir.
GLENN: Ten years.
And so you go over to Afghanistan, and what is your mission?
LUTTRELL: This
particular mission we were a four man sniper watch team
sitting on a capture kill task to locate, monitor the
activity of a high-ranking Taliban official with known ties
to Osama bin Laden.
And we were also
to pick up further on intelligence about him, coordinating
and executing complex tasks against coalition forces in this
particular area. It was a -- a remote area near the Paki
border that didn't see much play from the US military, and
that was our job, sir.
GLENN: Okay. And
you go in, Marcus, and this is a very dangerous situation.
How many -- how many are around you?
LUTTRELL: Intel
were forwarded up to 200.
GLENN: So you're
living in the midst of 200 Taliban that are looking to kill
you, and there's only four of you, and you're pretty much
alone?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. Yes, sir.
GLENN: Okay. What
happens?
LUTTRELL: We were
monitoring our target, didn't have a good visual on -- on --
on the initial site, so we relocated, got a better visual.
Couple hours after that we -- came across a (unintelligible)
compromise which means we were walked on by some civilians,
some Afghani goat herders.
GLENN: Hang on.
That means that they just happened upon you. They say you
and you're like, oh, crap, now what do we do?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. They were out walking the herd. They had about 75 or a
hundred goats, when I say they walked on us, I was
underneath a tree that had been cut down was burned out I
was hiding underneath that with my rifle watching the target
and he walked over the tree I was on. So when I heard him
above me, when I turned my -- just kind of turned a little
bit to look, he looked right down at me, and that's when the
compromise took place.
GLENN: Okay. And
this was a -- this is not a guy carrying a gun, this was not
a member of the Taliban, or was it, or what did you think
originally?
LUTTRELL: No, sir.
He -- he had a -- an axe with him, a wood chopping axe.
That's all he had with him. No firearm or anything like
that. About three to five minutes later another man walked
up the hill, one of my teammates, Matt Axelson, called over
to me and said that there was two more coming up, another
adult male and a -- about a 13 -- 13-year-old boy. So we
took 'em off to the side, set him down on a tree, you know,
started interrogating them, tried to give him some food,
some water, they didn't want to have anything to do with
that. They weren't answering any of our questions, either.
GLENN: You guys --
you speak the language?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. And we also have equipment that allows us to
communicate with them.
GLENN: Okay.
LUTTRELL: My
lieutenant, the officer in charge, he came down from his
position and did the best he could also to interrogate them,
and -- and they just weren't -- they weren't having it. So
--
GLENN: And what
were you trying to get -- what kind of information were you
trying to get?
LUTTRELL:
Basically we were telling them that we were Americans and
that they were in danger and asking if they had any -- any
-- or knew of anywhere about his of any Taliban sites or
cache sites or just basically what their general business
was up there, and they weren't answering anything.
GLENN: Now, did
you get the feeling at the time it was because they were a
part of the Taliban, or friendly, or they were just afraid
of you, or why --
LUTTRELL: My -- my
feeling after dealing with a lot -- most of -- every
operation we had been on, just you can tell when someone
doesn't really care for you. And when you look at someone's
eyes, whether they -- you know, they like you or they don't.
And on top of which they weren't answering any of our
questions. And even though the dialect might be a little
different in certain areas, still -- you could still
understand what we were saying, they weren't having anything
to do with us. They were talking among themselves,
obviously. We couldn't under -- we couldn't pick it up
totally. So the decision was they weren't brandishing
firearms, they were, you know, no immediate threat to us
except for the fact that if we turned them loose, that, you
know, they could obviously go get reinforcements to come
back on top of us. We talked about, you know, tying them up
and leaving them there, but again that would be just like
killing them as well. They had all the goats with them and
stuff like that. It's just -- that would have brought more
people into our position, and like I said, our job, we were
set in for 72 hours to overwatch this target, and with a
compromise like that, we were just in a difficult situation.
Also dealing with the terrain, there wasn't too many places
that we could relocate and evaluate our target so the
decision was made to turn 'em loose.
GLENN: Okay, so --
LUTTRELL: I mean
we couldn't -- we couldn't --
GLENN: How far --
LUTTRELL: Because
of the ROEs, rules of engagement, we have to -- placed upon
us and stuff like that, you know, if we would have executed
them, you know, we'd have wound up in prison. And it wasn't
-- I'd rather -- you know, we'd rather take our -- the
decision was to take our chances with -- in a gunfight than
take our chances in the court system.
GLENN: And the
reason why -- I mean the Taliban, they are actually now
carrying mule packhorses and mules loaded with explosives,
but our guys cannot stop them or can't shoot them because if
they're not carrying a weapon, you can't shoot them, right?
LUTTRELL: Well,
you can't even shoot them -- rules of engagement for
conventional forces you're not even allowed to shoot 'em if
they have a weapon on them. They have to be actively
engaging you.
GLENN: Okay. So
you guys talked about it and you decided we gotta let 'em
go. And was it mainly because of the rules of engagement?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir.
GLENN: Okay.
LUTTRELL: And, you
know, exactly. They -- like I said, they weren't carrying
any firearms, and we couldn't keep 'em, you know?
GLENN: Right. And
so you guys knew you'd go to prison, why? Because the bodies
would be found and then --
LUTTRELL:
Eventually the bodies would be found and their IO campaign
is a lot better than ours. They support --
GLENN: The IO
campaign, what is --
LUTTRELL: Their
media campaign.
GLENN: Okay.
LUTTRELL: You
know, so eventually it would have been traced back to us.
Some -- you'd think it would be impossible but I've seen it
happen.
GLENN: So, in
other words, what you're saying is they would find the
bodies, then they would contact the media, al-Jazeera, al-Jazeera
would run how you executed a 13-year-old boy and two -- two
other guys, and then it would be tracked back to you, and
you would be tried in the media, you'd end up in prison?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. That was -- that was the thing about it.
GLENN: Was this
just a -- was this just a conversation you guys had? You
actually took a vote, right?
LUTTRELL: We got
together -- I mean that's one of the unique things about the
SEAL team, obviously the officer is overall command and
control, I was the team leader and we had Danny and Matt, we
were in a unique situation, we got together, and obviously
two heads are better than one, three are better than two, so
we talked about it and came to the decision that, you know,
we aren't murderers, anything about the SEAL team that we
don't know about we're not a defensive force, we're an
offensive force. When we go in to -- you take the bad guys
out to take the fighter -- or to, you know -- to engage, but
in this certain situation, it was just unique, that's all I
could say. You know, I racked my brain a hundred million
times, you know, if we made the right call or not, but we
made the call --
GLENN: Okay.
LUTTRELL: --
depending on the rules that we implemented on them.
GLENN: Okay. So
now you let them go. How far away are you from your Taliban
target?
LUTTRELL: Maybe a
little under a click.
GLENN: I don't --
LUTTRELL: Maybe
under a mile. A mile.
GLENN: Okay. So
you're -- you're a mile away from your target, you let them
go. What do you tell them when they let you go, and what is
their expression on your face when you say, see you guys
later?
LUTTRELL: We
turned 'em loose, and they -- they took out. They -- I mean
they didn't stick around. And those -- you know, they ask
any people, they can move through those mountains quick. It
took them about five minutes to walk up a cliff that it took
our team to walk up, it took us about 30 to 45 minutes. You
know. Because once we turned them loose after about ten
minutes I sit there and watched them walk away, and they
never looked back. The kid did a couple times and then they
were gone. They just disappeared, and then we relocated.
GLENN: Okay. Then
what happened?
LUTTRELL: About 45
minutes later, about a hundred-plus Taliban militia showed
up over the top of our ridge. And my ROT, Michael Murphy,
was the first one to -- to spot the -- the combatants. I was
on the initial -- we were set up like a triangle on the side
of this cliff, so much so we had to dig out the ground below
us. We were just basically standing up leaning backwards
against a cliff. That's how steep it was, kind of give you
an idea. And we actually had an advantage on our target. I
had just passed the -- the monitoring equipment down to Matt
and pulled my hat down over my eyes. And then I get a
whisper from Mikey to -- when I pull my hat up, I look down
and, you know, his eyes were as big as sand dollars and he
was just like, you know, it's time to get it on. So I rolled
over and the first person I saw was a -- was a guy with two
RPGs on his back and an AK, and there was a huge pine -- or
a huge tree about 20 meters in front of me, and that's what
I focused my rifle on, my radical, you know, my snipe -- my
scope, and I see a head pop out and the muzzle of an AK. I
turned around and looked at Mikey and I was like, it's time
to get it on. And then all of the you can just see them
flooding the top part of the -- the ridge, and then they
were coming down our side.
Turned back
around, the guy had moved back around the tree. You could
hear them yelling. We didn't have an idea of how many there
were but just looking at what we were dealing with on top of
the ridge was -- was -- I mean it was a multitude of them,
sir. Took the first shot at the guy behind the tree. I
dumped him, and then that's what, you know, they opened up
on us. We were in a -- a tree bed, which provided some
cover. Axelson, Matt flanked to the left, Danny was on the
radio calling in for reinforcements and also covering our
right side and then Mikey, our OIC, he was hanging out in
between everybody running back -- because you couldn't hear
anything, there was so much gunfire, trying to figure out
what was going on, getting information from Mikey. He was
like locating up -- talking up my position, telling me to,
you know, basically to get it on, because we were getting
overrun. And then Axe was flanked out so far that he was
covering our left side that Mikey had a long stretch to get
-- to get to. Once we started getting overrun, I mean every
time we'd -- we'd take somebody down, sir, somebody would
fill their position. And they had every one of our -- you
know, every angle covered that it was -- it was impossible
to take everybody out.
GLENN: All right.
We're going to -- I'm going to stop you here for just a
second because I have to take a break.
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. Sorry.
GLENN: No, please.
We're talking to Marcus Luttrell. He is telling us a story
about four SEALs, four Navy SEALs that were in Afghanistan
that because of the rules of engagement, let some goat
herders that stumbled across them, let them go. I'll tell
you now we're at the part of the story where there's over a
hundred Taliban now surrounding them. We'll tell you what
happened, how many did they kill, and what happens to the
four Navy SEALs. And most importantly, they did take a vote
on, should we let these goat herders alone? They looked at
it and said, my gosh, we'll go to prison if we don't. How
did they vote? How did Marcus vote? And who's alive? We'll
continue the story here in just a second.
GLENN: Marcus has
a new book out. I gave you the name even though it spoils
the -- part of the ending of the story. The book is called
Lone Survivor, between 150 and 200 Taliban against four Navy
SEALs. He hasn't even really gotten to the story yet, and
when you see how our hands are tied, you'll understand why
the ratings for the president and Congress are as low as
they are and why people say, but they misunderstand, why
they say, this is all about the war. It is about the war,
but it's about the fact -- the reason why we're -- we're
looking at these politicians in such contempt and disgust
right now is because they are tying our military's hands.
And unless you're going to unleash these guys and give 'em a
fighting chance, it is immoral to fight a war like this.
So let's go back
to Marcus. Okay, so the Taliban, they have you surrounded.
They -- every time you shoot one, another one takes his
place. Then what happens?
LUTTRELL: Excuse
me, sir. We lapped it up there for a good while. Like I said
we were in some -- a good grove of trees that was providing
ample cover and concealment from -- from all the different
angles, but eventually they had maneuvered around to where
they could -- where they can get in on top of us. I remember
gunfire -- strafing underneath my rifle and also came in a
tree that had -- had my left shoulder held up against. I
looked back at Mikey. I was like what's the call, sir, and
he was just like, you know, initial, he was just --
something like that, an ambush like that, you're supposed to
rush an ambush. However, two -- two things played into that.
One is the fact that it was so seep that we couldn't climb
up -- we couldn't rush the ambush and fire at the same time,
which was good because we didn't know how many people we
were up against. If we'd have come over that ridge --
GLENN: And saw
200.
LUTTRELL: It would
have been tough. It would have been a tough fight. But --
GLENN: At what
point did you think we're all dead.
LUTTRELL: No, sir.
GLENN: Okay.
LUTTRELL: I
didn't. We were doing good. We just --
GLENN: Hello?
Hello? We lost him. Somehow or another his phone dropped
out. Can you -- Dan, can you call him real quick, get him
back on? Get him on the phone again real quick.
What's amazing about this story, and you're going to hear,
he called for a helicopter, they called for backup. It came.
Wait until you hear what happened there. You are going to
see in the next few times who our enemy really is, and how
much they hate and us what lengths they will do, what
lengths they will go through, they will jump any hoop to
kill us.
It is the story,
the goat herders, well, let's just let 'em go, we're your
friends, your American. They don't want any part of it. And
then you will see in a minute how they manipulate the media
and how our troops are literally on the ropes all the time.
I -- you know, I
really honestly hope that there are people in Washington
that are listening right now. I mean listening, not hearing.
They -- they say they're on these listening tours. No,
they're not. They're to hearing tours. They need to listen
to people like this. Marcus?
LUTTRELL: I'm
sorry, sir.
GLENN: That's
okay. All right, so you can't rush, you've got more people
coming. What happens?
LUTTRELL: I look
back at -- at Mikey, and I was -- I don't know if you're in
this part, but I'm getting shot up pretty good up here, so
he said fall back to my position. So when I stood up, I fell
completely, you know, I started tumbling, pinballing in
between those trees, and so did he. And this was for about
50 meters, if I remember correctly.
GLENN: Now, this
is going down a very steep -- I'm guessing rough terrain
hill?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. In the grove it was -- we were -- we were lucky, it was
mostly dirt and trees, so bouncing out of trees wasn't bad
but I guess the best way to describe it would be a double
black diamond for people who ski.
GLENN: Yeah.
LUTTRELL: So once
we came out of the tree line, it kind of lipped, it had a
lip, and we took off. And then what we thought was -- was
grass and dirt turned out to be boulders and trees that had
been shot down and the grass just growing up in between. So
Mike and I tumbled down that for -- for another 50 to 70
yards, and finally came into two huge trees that had been
cut down that were laying over the top of each other, and we
took cover behind that. They came out of the tree line, I
mentioned they opened up on us with the RPGs and the
mortars.
GLENN: Okay,
there's only two of you now. There's just the two of you
down there. Where are the other two?
LUTTRELL: Axelson
was still off on our left flank, keeping us safe over there.
And then Danny was still up in the tree line on the radio
calling in for the QRF.
GLENN: What is the
QRF.
LUTTRELL: Quick
reactionary force, as a backup.
GLENN: All right.
How far away --
LUTTRELL: -- body
that we were going to -- was to come in and take down the
target once we visualize our objective.
GLENN: How far
away, how many minutes away were they supposed to be?
LUTTRELL: They
were about 20 to 30 minutes, sir.
GLENN: And did he
give you any indication that he had reached them and that
they were on their way?
LUTTRELL: Excuse
me. Once -- once Mikey and I had picked up in the trees,
Axelson had come tumbling down his side off to the left
flank, just like we were down the middle. It was kind of
surreal to see just exactly how it was, how hard we fell.
GLENN: Okay, hang
on just -- I've gotta take break here. Helicopter is on the
way. More on this amazing story, true to life, next.
GLENN: We are
spending a few minutes with Marcus Luttrell today. He is --
he's a former Navy SEAL. He was on a -- he was on a mission
to target and monitor a -- a high-ranking Taliban official.
They were undercover. They were hidden. They were stumbled
upon by a couple of goat herders and a 13-year-old boy,
Afghanis. They decided to take a vote, do we kill them, or
do we let them go? He said that they could feel it, they
could see it in their eyes they had contempt for the
Americans. And they took a vote. And they decided -- and it
was a close vote. They decided that they couldn't kill 'em
because if they did kill them, they were so good, the
Taliban was so good at manipulating our media that it would
turn into a firestorm and then it would be a political witch
hunt, and these four SEALs would go to prison, and they said
they'd rather -- they'd rather die trying to fight these
guys than go to prison. So they let the goat herders go. The
goat herders then leave.
Forty-five minutes
later, there's about 200 Taliban that are surrounding our
four Navy SEALs. They are holding strong. All four of them
are still alive at this point. And they are now down kind of
in a bottom of a ravine and a giant cliff next at them, and
the Taliban is everywhere. They have called for
reinforcements, and the helicopter is on the way. It's about
supposedly 20 to 30 minutes away. Welcome Marcus Luttrell
again to the program. Okay, so Marcus, you're down at the
hill, the helicopter is on the way. What happens next?
LUTTRELL: No, sir.
Actually what happened was, when Danny -- he had been shot a
couple times while he was trying to make radio
communications with our QRF, so they didn't -- once he came
tumbling down, he was the last man to come down the
mountain, he tumbled right into me, actually, and asked him,
did you get the call off and he was no, so we didn't have
any reinforcements at that time. So --
GLENN: You still
had -- you still had the radio?
LUTTRELL: No, sir.
No, sir, we didn't. Basically we just kind of set up shop
behind these two trees -- or that had fallen down and were
firing back up at the enemy. We tried to maneuver to get to
the high ground a couple of times to get advantage, but they
just stacked up and pushed us back down. And the only way we
could go then was about a 40-foot drop-off. So one by one we
just kind of dumped off, which was probably the toughest
part because it -- we hit a grove of bushes and fell an
extra ten feet and then they came in over the top of us and
Danny got hit a couple more times right then.
We got -- we
maneuvered our way out of the -- out of the little ravine
there and back up into the -- onto the -- into the middle of
the draw to continue the fight. We were bounding back and
forth, they were still unloading on us with RPGs and -- and
mortars. We had separated to either side of each -- each
cliff there, and what was so hard about it was that like a
guy would walk about ten feet and then you'd -- he'd just
disappear, you know, off a boulder or behind a ridge, so we
didn't really have line of sight with each other the whole
time, which is -- is not really the way we do business.
But we did the
best we could. And one by one, you know, everyone just kept
getting shot. There was -- there was one particular time
when Danny and I were together, he had taken about four or
five rounds into the body, one through his lung, one had
blown his thumb off. That's the reason he can't -- he had to
give up the radio, because it was shot out of his hand.
He and I were standing there, I was trying to maneuver back,
and then a Taliban militia came over a rock, a ledge, he had
us dead to rights. And then Axelson took him out about 20
yards over my left shoulder. We started maneuvering back,
and then one by one, Danny was the -- was the first guy we
lost. Just -- I'm sorry, sir.
GLENN: That's all
right.
LUTTRELL: We --
you know, we kept moving the best we could. We just --
inevitably we were running low on ammo. They had come
underneath us from the village that we were monitoring so
they had us in a 360 degree pen, so no matter where we hide
or any kind of location we'd set up in to take the enemy on,
it was just -- they had a clear shot on us. Matt and I had
positioned ourself on the left ridge. He had taken a round
to the head and walked down towards me, and then I looked up
and that's when I saw our OIC walk out into the middle of
the draw there onto a rock, the highest point he could get
to, break out our phone, and make communications back to our
base for the QRF. He took at least one round that I know of
to the back, if not two, it kind of dumped him over, he
continued with the phone call, hung up the phone, grabbed
his rifle, and went back to fighting. And then he flanked
left behind some rocks. I couldn't see him anymore. Matt had
worked his way past me, and we were -- we were -- all three
of us were on the left side. Mikey was engaging the enemy as
hard as he could, and then he just -- he was just overrun.
Because once you fell down past a certain point, there was
no way we could get back up to reinforce each other. You
understand what I'm saying?
GLENN: Yes.
LUTTRELL: It was
just -- it was too steep. And that's -- you know, I lost
Mikey, and it was just Matt and I. We had worked our way
down underneath a little embankment, and there was another
log that was kind of giving us multiple cover. Matt had
broken out his med kit and tried to bandage up where he had
been hit in the head, and I just remember he and I were
sitting underneath there. He didn't even have it over the
wound actually. He was kind of -- he was still coherent, he
was still talking to me, but, you know, we knew -- we knew
that was pretty much it. We were -- we were done for, we
were outta ammo by then. And that's the only problem was we
were such a small unit that we weren't set up to take on a
-- that's not our job to take on a force like that. We're to
go in and out and then that's it.
GLENN: What was
your -- what was your conversation like? The two of you.
LUTTRELL: It was
-- it was comical at first, you know, it was like -- I was
like yeah, I think we're going to -- you know, we're going
to freaking die here bro, and he was like yeah, looks like
this is a good spot, you know, I mean -- I was evaluating
his wounds, I was a medic, and he was just like, you know --
he -- he knew, you know, he was like, you know, stay alive,
was like telling me life all over and keep going. And then a
RPG -- about that time an RPG had come into our position and
hit that tree and this other thing and flew -- it blew me
out and back over this ridge. And I was knocked out then,
sir.
When I -- when I
came to, I was upside down and paralyzed from the waist
down. I couldn't even feel my legs. So I rolled over, my
rifle was laying there next to me, I grabbed my rifle, I
belly crawled about 20 to 30 meters into the side of the
mountain and wedged myself in between these rocks, covered
myself from the waist up with rocks. My legs were mangled
into these trees. I took some mud and packed into the --
into the heavy bleeders that I had in my leg and tried to
pull out some of the frag from the RPG, but just wasn't
happening. I waited, heard the Taliban move down into the --
into the ravine, you know, I could tell they were getting
close. They were doing a lot of recon by fire trying to
flush me out. They knew how many of us there were, and they
could only find three of us, so it was an avid hunt for me
all day.
I stayed blocked
in that position for, I don't know, hours, six, seven hours,
without moving. And then you could see our helicopters and
stuff flying overhead, some A-10, but none of them were
coming into our valley. They were going -- they'd fly in
through -- in through our open airspace but then they'd go
over to a different part of the -- the mountain, and I
didn't understand why. I tried to turn on my beacon on my
radio so they could get a fix on me, but it just wasn't
happening. From all the dirt from the RPGs and just from the
-- the constant fighting, you know, my tongue had a -- I had
been so dehydrated my tongue was stuck to the roof of my
mouth and my mouth was -- I couldn't talk basically is what
I was trying to say, so I baited there all day until
initially I started getting the feeling back in my legs. In
the failing sun I could see a glisten off a far canyon wall.
I mean I could hear them running over the dirt rocks fair
over my head from where they were running over the top, I
could hear them yelling.
And I looked into
my reticle, and there was a guy standing there with a silver
AK, right beside a rock. I took a shot, I dumped him, there
were two more guys had run up obviously I was suppressed and
in this canyon so they didn't have any idea where I was at,
I was covered up pretty good. They hit behind the wrong side
of the rock. So I dumped those two guys, and stood up and
started walking towards -- I didn't have any maps or -- or
compass or go to sleep or anything. My pants had been blown
off. So I kind of just used the sun for a cardinal bearing
and then started walking through the mountains trying to get
out of there, to a military base to find some help. I walked
all night. Actually up and down -- I crawled up and down
that mountain like three or four -- three times, and I
stepped off of it completely twice that I know of, I took
about a 150-foot fall once, I could hear aircraft overhead,
I was hit -- hit my beacon, everything I could do to signal
this aircraft where I was at.
GLENN: Okay,
Marcus I've gotta take a break. We're running so far behind.
Let me just -- let me just stop you here for a second. The
story, I mean we've just scratched the surface on this
story. You are a remarkable human being. And I -- I mean
this with every bit in me. Thank you for everything that you
and the guys like you do. We have so much faith and so much
confidence in you. You are truly, truly amazing.
But there's more
to the story, there's more to tell, and there's a real
message that people in America need to hear. We'll be back
in just a second.
GLENN: Marcus
Luttrell. He is a Navy SEAL that was in Afghanistan, in
harm's way, lost his team. He was alone. We're now at a
point there -- I mean there's -- Marcus, there is just so
much to your story. I have never -- I don't think I've ever
done this in my career. I've been in radio for 30 years. But
I can't -- I just can't end the story here, and I know you
can't do anything next hour. Can I ask you to come back and
instead of butchering and summarizing the story and the
lessons that you've learned can I ask you to come back and
spend another hour with me tomorrow at this same time?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir. It would be my pleasure, sir.
GLENN: Because
there's -- I mean this is a -- I mean I have friends who are
reading your book -- I'm sorry to say I haven't read it yet.
I have friends who are reading your book and they are on me
like white on rice saying, Glenn, you've gotta read this
book. This -- I can't -- I mean I had a guy call me last
nine, 11 o'clock last night, said Glenn, I'm going to have
another sleepless night. I cannot put this book down. And
it's called Lone Survivor.
But there's so
much more to cover, including when you are with a tribe from
Afghanistan, and you had -- you pulled the pin out of the
grenade and you're thinking if these guys are bad guys I'm
just going to let go and we're all going to die together.
We'll tell that story tomorrow.
Let me ask you two
quick questions. You still a Navy -- I only have 30 seconds.
I'm not even going to ask you that. Luttrell, I'll talk to
you -- I'll talk to you tomorrow at the same time, all
right?
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir.
GLENN: Thank you
very much, sir.
LUTTRELL: Yes,
sir.
GLENN: I'm sorry
to do that to you, audience, I really thought we could get
through it more, but I didn't -- I wanted him to tell the
story the way he's telling the story. And there's so much
more here. Listen, if you missed any of the story, free
transcript will be available later today at GlennBeck.com.
You'll be able to read the story. The audio will be up there
for the insiders. Please pass this on to all of your
friends. Show them the transcript, and tell them to do one
of two things, either listen tomorrow, or go out and buy the
book Lone Survivor. The message should be heard. So please
pass this on to your friends. The transcript available in a
few hours at GlennBeck.com.
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