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Navy SEAL goes rogue in Iraq (MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I have something very special to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: One of my former teammates from back when I was
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  Speaker 1: in Navy Seal has one of the most insane stories
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  Speaker 1: you will ever hear, and recently he gave me permission
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get into today's story.
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  Speaker 1: In June of twenty eleven, I had just failed a
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  Speaker 1: very stressful and anxiety inducing underwater test as part of
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  Speaker 1: Navy Seal training. And after I failed this test, my
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  Speaker 1: instructor told me to get out of the pool and
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  Speaker 1: go over to the corner with the other failures, And
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  Speaker 1: so I made my way to the edge of the pool,
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  Speaker 1: I climbed out, and I sulked my way to the
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  Speaker 1: corner where I saw my other classmates who had met
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  Speaker 1: a similar fate on this test. They were all sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the corner with their backs to the pool in
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  Speaker 1: neat rose, and so I was totally gassed from this test,
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  Speaker 1: and so when I sat down, I start dramatically breathing
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  Speaker 1: really loud and heaving my chest up and down to
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  Speaker 1: show off just how hard my test had been. And
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  Speaker 1: about two seconds into this ridiculous performance of mine, one
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  Speaker 1: of my other classmates who had been sitting in the
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  Speaker 1: corner when I showed up, a big eighteen year old
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  Speaker 1: kid from Wisconsin named Eframatos. He immediately turned around and
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  Speaker 1: made eye contact with me, and through gritted teeth, he
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  Speaker 1: just goes, shut up. Everybody here is in pain. And
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  Speaker 1: then he turned back around, and immediately I was actually
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  Speaker 1: really mad at him because he just totally publicly dimed
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  Speaker 1: me out in front of my other classmates. But then
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  Speaker 1: it dawned on me he was right. The job we
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  Speaker 1: were trying out for Navy Seal, they're not looking for
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  Speaker 1: people who just feel bad for themselves all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And so I never forgot the lesson Fromatos taught me
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  Speaker 1: on the pool deck that day, and Ah, along with
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  Speaker 1: everybody else in the seal teams, never forgot the totally
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  Speaker 1: insane thing that Framatos did five years later that was
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  Speaker 1: picked up by virtually every major news network at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Back in twenty twelve, so about a year after our
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  Speaker 1: exchange on the pool deck from and I graduated and
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  Speaker 1: became Navy seals. I was assigned to an East Coast
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  Speaker 1: seal team and he was assigned to a West Coast one.
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  Speaker 1: And over the next five years, I never saw the
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  Speaker 1: guy until I saw him on TV. It was mid
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  Speaker 1: June twenty seventeen, and I was on base in Virginia
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  Speaker 1: in an office full of other Navy Seals, and we
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  Speaker 1: were wrapping up for the day. I was closing my
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  Speaker 1: email and powering down my computer, and I noticed my
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  Speaker 1: phone that was sitting on the table suddenly started lighting
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  Speaker 1: up with all these text messages from current and former teammates,
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  Speaker 1: and so I grabbed my phone, and all the messages
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  Speaker 1: said the same thing, turn on the news. And so
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  Speaker 1: in this office we were in, there was always a
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  Speaker 1: TV that was turned to the news sitting in the
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  Speaker 1: corner that was on mute. And so I turned to
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  Speaker 1: look at this TV, and on the TV from a distance,
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  Speaker 1: all I can see is breaking news and Middle East
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  Speaker 1: and so, given our profession, news like that tended to
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  Speaker 1: have a direct impact on our day to day lives,
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  Speaker 1: and so I assumed all these text messages must be
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  Speaker 1: about whatever happened in the Middle East. And so I
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  Speaker 1: get up, I walk over, I grab the remote, and
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  Speaker 1: on my walk back to my seat, I'm turning the
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  Speaker 1: volume up, and everybody else in the room is turning
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  Speaker 1: around to watch the TV as well, and we start
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  Speaker 1: hearing the TV reporters talking about this group of American
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  Speaker 1: civilians that had gone to Iraq and taken up arms
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  Speaker 1: against the terrorist organization ISIS. And so as they're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this group of American civilians, they put on the
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  Speaker 1: screen an image of one of these Americans. It was
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  Speaker 1: this big bearded guy in his mid twenties carrying an
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  Speaker 1: AK forty seven rifle standing behind a tank somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. And as soon as I saw that picture,
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  Speaker 1: I knew right away why I had gotten that flurry
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  Speaker 1: of text messages from current and former teammates. It's because
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  Speaker 1: we all know this guy. The guy on TV was Afromatos.
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  Speaker 1: Five years earlier after our graduation, Afroim checkt Into was
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  Speaker 1: first Seal team out on the West coast, and very
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  Speaker 1: quickly after he showed up, they deployed to Afghanistan. During
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  Speaker 1: one of their missions, Ephrom was in the back of
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  Speaker 1: his patrol as they walked across this huge open field
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  Speaker 1: as they left this village they had just been in,
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  Speaker 1: and so Ephraim, and virtue of being in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the patrol, was in charge of looking behind the
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  Speaker 1: unit and make sure no one was coming after them.
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  Speaker 1: And so Ephram periodically would turn around and he would
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  Speaker 1: look and make sure no one was following them. And
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  Speaker 1: then at some point when he turned around, he saw
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  Speaker 1: two little girls that couldn't have been more than five
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  Speaker 1: and seven years old running out of the village and
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  Speaker 1: start running down the road towards them. Now, earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the day, when Ephram and his team had been in
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  Speaker 1: that village, they had found a children's backpack lying in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the road, and when they went up
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  Speaker 1: to inspect it, it turned out to be rigged with explosives. Now,
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  Speaker 1: no one had gotten hurt. They had diffused the explosives,
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  Speaker 1: but they were very weary for children's backpacks, and so
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  Speaker 1: as Ephram sees these two girls running up to him,
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  Speaker 1: he can see they're both wearing similar style backpacks to
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  Speaker 1: the one they found in the road. They were suicide bombs.
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim began screaming at these girls to stop, go back,
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  Speaker 1: don't come any closer, or I'll have to shoot at you.
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  Speaker 1: But he could tell they weren't stopping. They were just
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  Speaker 1: running up the road. He could see there were tears
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  Speaker 1: coming down their face. They were totally upset. They were
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  Speaker 1: obviously innocent. They were young kids. They'd been put up
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  Speaker 1: to this by the Taliban. But Ephraim, because he was
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  Speaker 1: in the rear security of his patrol, he had to
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  Speaker 1: deal with them like they were threats, and so at
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  Speaker 1: some point when they wouldn't stop, he raised his rifle up.
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  Speaker 1: He flipped the gun off safe, and he put his
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  Speaker 1: radical right on one of the girls, and he began
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  Speaker 1: applying pressure to his trigger. But right as he was
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  Speaker 1: about to squeeze and fire a shot, the girls just
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  Speaker 1: abruptly stopped. It's like they knew they were about to
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  Speaker 1: be shot, and they turned around and they ran back
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  Speaker 1: towards the village, and so Efim put his finger off
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  Speaker 1: the trigger, he flipped it back on safe. He lowered
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  Speaker 1: his rifle and he breathed a huge sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 1: But even though he didn't have to engage these poor girls,
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  Speaker 1: that experience totally haunted Ephraim. In fact, of all the
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  Speaker 1: combat he got in on that deployment, that experience with
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  Speaker 1: those innocent girls had the most impact on him. How
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  Speaker 1: could anybody force a child to be a suicide bomber?
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  Speaker 1: How could anyone be that cruel? And so by the
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  Speaker 1: time Ephram came back to the United States after that deployment,
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  Speaker 1: he had changed. That experience specifically had changed him. Even
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  Speaker 1: though he believed in the US government's mission over in
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  Speaker 1: Afghanistan and in the Middle East, he felt like he
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  Speaker 1: could be doing more for these poor innocent people. They
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  Speaker 1: were just trapped inside of conflict zones like these two
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  Speaker 1: little girls. And so over the next few years, he
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  Speaker 1: began looking at different conflict zones all over the world
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  Speaker 1: where civilians were in the most danger, and he discovered
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  Speaker 1: there was one place that was killing and exploiting civilians
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  Speaker 1: at an unprecedented rate, and that place was Iraq, where
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  Speaker 1: a new terrorist organization had taken power called ISIS. So
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  Speaker 1: in early twenty seventeen, when Ephraim's Navy contract ran out
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  Speaker 1: and it was time for him to decide if he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stay in the seal teams or get out
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  Speaker 1: and become a civilian. He opted to not re enlist,
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  Speaker 1: so he left the military and instead he got on
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  Speaker 1: social media and he contacted a foreign volunteer group in
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  Speaker 1: Iraq that was providing humanitarian aid to civilians, and he
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  Speaker 1: reached out to them and he said, hey, can I
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  Speaker 1: join you? And of course they said yes, we'd love
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  Speaker 1: to have a Navy seal come out and support us.
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  Speaker 1: And so just a couple of days later, Ephrom sold
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  Speaker 1: his house. He packed up a bag of clothes in
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  Speaker 1: a backpack, he grabbed his passport, and he hopped in
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  Speaker 1: a plane and he flew to northern Iraq all by himself. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before we continue the rest of the story, you need
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  Speaker 1: to understand just how bold this move was by Ephraim. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when he was a Navy seal and so a member
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  Speaker 1: of the United States military on active duty, when he
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  Speaker 1: went to Afghanistan to a war zone, he had lots
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  Speaker 1: of support. If his team got pinned down by the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: they could call in an airstrike, or they could call
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  Speaker 1: in backup. If Ephrom got hurt on the battlefield or
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  Speaker 1: its teammates got hurt on the battlefield, they could call
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  Speaker 1: in special medical teams that would fly in in virtually
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  Speaker 1: any condition to come save them. And if Efrom got
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  Speaker 1: captured by the enemy, you better believe America is coming
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  Speaker 1: for him. But in this case, Ephrom went to a
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  Speaker 1: war zone as a civilian. He was not in the
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  Speaker 1: US military, so he didn't have any of that support.
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  Speaker 1: If he or his team got pinned down out in Iraq,
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  Speaker 1: they would either have to fight their way out or
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  Speaker 1: get killed or captured. If he or one of his
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  Speaker 1: new teammates from this volunteer group got hurt, they would
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  Speaker 1: have to either save themselves or get killed or captured.
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  Speaker 1: And if Efrom got captured as a civilian, nobody's coming
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  Speaker 1: for him. Nobody even knows he's been captured. He is
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  Speaker 1: completely on his own. But Ephram knew these risks. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he knew them better than most people because he had
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  Speaker 1: already deployed to a war zone and saw how important
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  Speaker 1: it was to have a support infrastructure. So when he
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  Speaker 1: flew to Iraq as a civilian, he knew he was
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  Speaker 1: hanging it out there, but he just didn't care. He
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  Speaker 1: felt like he had a mission to go help these
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  Speaker 1: innocent people because nobody else was. When he arrived in
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  Speaker 1: Iraq in March of twenty seventeen, he was met at
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  Speaker 1: the airport by one of the guys from this volunteer
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  Speaker 1: group Ephrom was going out to join. He was a
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  Speaker 1: very muscular, tattooed American in his mid thirties who introduced
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  Speaker 1: himself as Sky, and he said he had been a
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  Speaker 1: marine and while he was in the Marines, he had
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  Speaker 1: deployed to Iraq, so he was familiar with the area.
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  Speaker 1: The pair hopped in a vehicle and Sky drove them
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  Speaker 1: to the volunteer group safehouse in the city, where Ephrom
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to meet the leader of this group.
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  Speaker 1: It was a toughest nails former Army Special Forces guy
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  Speaker 1: in his mid fifties named Dave. And Dave for the
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  Speaker 1: past several decades had been going out to conflict zones
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  Speaker 1: all over the world, and he would tell Ephraim that
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  Speaker 1: the worst atrocities he had seen committed against civilians in
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  Speaker 1: any of these places was where they were right now
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  Speaker 1: in Iraq, at the hands of Isis. A few days later, Efhram, Sky, Dave,
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  Speaker 1: and a few other American volunteers loaded up into this
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  Speaker 1: convoy made up of armored ambulances, and they left the
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  Speaker 1: city and they headed west into the countryside towards a
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  Speaker 1: huge city called Mosul that three years earlier had been
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  Speaker 1: captured by ISIS. On their journey towards the city, Efhrom
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  Speaker 1: and the others had to pass through a number of
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  Speaker 1: military checkpoints. Now, most of these checkpoints were stood up
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  Speaker 1: by their ally, the Iraqi Army, but Efrem and the
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  Speaker 1: others knew that they might stumble upon an ISIS checkpoint
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  Speaker 1: and in virtue of all of them being pale skinned Americans,
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  Speaker 1: they would instantly be recognized as the enemy and fired upon.
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  Speaker 1: So every time they slowed down for one of these checkpoints,
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  Speaker 1: Efrom and the others would clutch their guns closely and
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  Speaker 1: mentally prepare themselves for a potential vicious close corps fight
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  Speaker 1: to the death. But luckily they managed to go the
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  Speaker 1: entire distance all the way to the outskirts of Mosol
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  Speaker 1: without any checkpoint trauma. And once they got there, they
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  Speaker 1: linked up with an Iraqi Army unit that the leader
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  Speaker 1: of this volunteer group, Dave, had a relationship with over
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  Speaker 1: the first month that Ephraim was in country. He worked
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  Speaker 1: with this Iraqi Army unit to help distribute food and
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  Speaker 1: provide medical care to civilians in and around Mosl. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in month two of his stay in Iraq, everything changed.
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  Speaker 1: Iraqi decision makers decided it was finally time to retake
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  Speaker 1: Mosol from ISIS. This was a huge military movement that
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  Speaker 1: required sin several units to work together and would take
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  Speaker 1: several weeks. The main Iraqi army was going to push
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  Speaker 1: inside of the city limits of Mosul an inch by inch,
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  Speaker 1: reclaimed territory from ISIS, while the army unit that Ephram
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  Speaker 1: and his volunteer group had embedded with would be responsible
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  Speaker 1: for reclaiming some of the villages around Mosul that ISIS
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  Speaker 1: had occupied. And so suddenly Ephram and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his volunteer group went from being humanitarian aid workers to
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  Speaker 1: having a direct frontline combat role with the Iraqi Army,
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  Speaker 1: and in his first civilian combat experience, from ran across
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  Speaker 1: an active minefield towards this village that was occupied by
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  Speaker 1: ISIS and after nearly being blown up at least two times,
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  Speaker 1: Fhram finally made it to this village and he began
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  Speaker 1: going house to house with the other volunteers, clearing them
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  Speaker 1: of ISIS fighters, and in one instance that he has
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  Speaker 1: on camera, he entered into the structure and he saw
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  Speaker 1: there were guns from the ground, and they looked around
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  Speaker 1: and they couldn't find any ISIS fighters inside, but they
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  Speaker 1: noticed on the ground there was a piece of plywood.
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  Speaker 1: They moved it aside and it revealed this huge hole
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  Speaker 1: that led down into the ground. And this hole connected
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  Speaker 1: to a huge underground tunnel system that ISIS used to
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  Speaker 1: escape gunfights just like this one. And so Effrom and
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  Speaker 1: Dave who was with him, just hopped right down into
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel. They didn't have night vision, they didn't have backup.
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  Speaker 1: Just the two of them start running down this totally
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  Speaker 1: pitch black tunnel, periodically throwing grenades ahead of them in
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  Speaker 1: case there are ISIS fighters ahead of them. And at
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  Speaker 1: some point, after running for quite a while, just getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to come in contact with their adversaries, they reached
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  Speaker 1: this big, high ceilinged cavern that's at dead end and
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  Speaker 1: they're looking around thinking, okay, I guess no one ran
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  Speaker 1: in here. But before they turned around and left the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel system, they looked up with their lights and they
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  Speaker 1: saw high up on the wall, dug into the wall
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  Speaker 1: was another entrance to another tunnel. It looked like there
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  Speaker 1: needed to be a ladder to get up to this
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  Speaker 1: additional tunnel entrance, and so Efrom and Dave look at
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  Speaker 1: each other and they're thinking, I bet IIS fighters ran
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  Speaker 1: down here. There was a ladder. They climbed and went
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  Speaker 1: in that entrance and then pulled the ladder up so
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  Speaker 1: we can't follow them. And so after Mindave couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about it, they decided, okay, well, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just go out and we'll tell the Iraqi Army and
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  Speaker 1: see what they want to do. So after Mandave they
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  Speaker 1: leave this tunnel system that go back outside. They tell
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  Speaker 1: the Iraqi army, and the Iraqi Army brings in a
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  Speaker 1: bulldozer and they fill in that entrance they had found
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  Speaker 1: inside of the house, completely seal it up so nobody
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  Speaker 1: could go in or get out. And then later that night,
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  Speaker 1: after that village had been cleared of all ISIS fighters,
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  Speaker 1: they began hearing muffled explosions underground near where this entrance
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  Speaker 1: to this tunnel was, and what it turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be was ISIS fighters that realized they had been buried alive.
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  Speaker 1: They had snuck down there. They had used a ladder
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  Speaker 1: to get up into that crawl space, but when they
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  Speaker 1: realized they were doomed, they blew themselves up. For the
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  Speaker 1: next month, Ephram and the Iraqi army unit that he
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  Speaker 1: and his volunteers were working with continued to periodically get
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  Speaker 1: into small skirmishes with ISIS in these villages outside of Mosul,
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  Speaker 1: but the majority of their time was spent providing humanitarian
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  Speaker 1: aid and medical care to civilians in the area. Then
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  Speaker 1: in May their mission changed again. The other Iraqi army
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  Speaker 1: units that had been sent directly into Mosl a month
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  Speaker 1: earlier to inch by inch eradicate the area of ISIS fighters.
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  Speaker 1: They had done a relatively good job, but the last
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  Speaker 1: few ISIS fighters had been pushed up into this northern
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  Speaker 1: section of the city where they had bunkered down inside
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  Speaker 1: of these blown out concrete structures, and they were putting
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  Speaker 1: up an unbelievably fierce fight, so fierce in fact, that
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  Speaker 1: these Iraqi Army units in the city were not able
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  Speaker 1: to go any farther forward. They needed armored vehicles and
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  Speaker 1: tanks if they were going to be successful, And it
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  Speaker 1: just so happened the army unit that Ephraim and his
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  Speaker 1: volunteer group had embedded with that had been outside of
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  Speaker 1: Mosl this whole time. They were an armored unit. They
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  Speaker 1: had armored vehicles and tanks, and they were ordered to
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  Speaker 1: head right into the heart of Mosl and liberate it
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  Speaker 1: once and for all. And so on May fourth, from
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  Speaker 1: and the other volunteers loaded up in their armored vehicles
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  Speaker 1: and they joined this huge line of dozens and dozens
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  Speaker 1: of tanks and other armored vehicles. Looking at the western
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  Speaker 1: side of Mosl. There was just a field between them
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  Speaker 1: and the city walls. And as soon as this massive
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  Speaker 1: convoy began moving forward towards the city, the city just
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  Speaker 1: opened up on them, heavy machine gun fire, rocketfire, mortars.
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  Speaker 1: It was just absolute chaos. Isis knew they were coming,
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  Speaker 1: and so they were unleashing everything they had on them.
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  Speaker 1: And Aphrom would say, after his vehicle actually got inside
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  Speaker 1: of the city limits of Mosol and was on one
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  Speaker 1: of their roads, all these booby trapped cars began detonating
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  Speaker 1: all around them, and the machine gun fire and rocket
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  Speaker 1: fire and mortar fire only intensified. At the same time
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  Speaker 1: this was happening, Iraqi civilians inside of Moses saw this
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable wave of violence happening, and they began trying to
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  Speaker 1: leave the city. Now ISIS had effectively kept them hostage
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  Speaker 1: inside of Mosol because they needed lots of civilians in
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  Speaker 1: and around the area, because it prevented Iraq and America
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  Speaker 1: and other forces that were fighting ISIS from indiscriminately bombing
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  Speaker 1: Mosl to get rid of the ISIS presence there. And
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: so when ISIS saw these villions running away, they began
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: shooting them to deter other civilians from trying to escape.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: And so right in front of Ephraim as he's driving
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: into the city, men, women, children are just being gunned
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: down all over the place. Naturally, Ephram and the other
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: volunteers hopped out and tried to return fire at these
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: ISIS shooters, but they were so well fortified in different
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: structures they couldn't even see them, let alone hit them.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So they did the next best thing. Efrom and the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: others began putting themselves out in the open to draw
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: fire on themselves so that other nearby civilians could run
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: the safety. And for the next three days that's what
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: they did, constantly exposing themselves and dodging bullets. And then
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: also when they weren't doing that. They were treating these
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: civilians that had been wounded and other Iraqi soldiers that
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: had been wounded. Now to this point, ephram had seen
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: combat when he was in the United States Navy as
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a Navy seal, and he'd seen combat as a volunteer
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: with this group, But it wasn't until he got inside
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of Mosul that he saw just how barbaric humans can
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: be to one another. He said, he saw so much
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: death and dying all around him that it was like
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: his brain couldn't compute that level of barbarism. He would
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: later write a book called The City of Death, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: it was about his experience in Mosul, and he said
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the reason he named the book the City of Death
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: is because that's what it felt like. Everywhere around him
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: was just death. For the next several weeks, Ephraim and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the other volunteers took up a position in the south
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: section of Mosol. Inside of this bombed out building, they
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: created a sort of aid station, and there they focused
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: all of their attention on trying to treat as many
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: wounded civilians and wounded Iraqi soldiers as they possibly could.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: At the same time, the rest of the Iraqi army
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: had pushed north and was slowly chipping away at the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: last few Isis spiders. On June first, so roughly one
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: month after Ephraim and the others have entered into the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: city of Mosul, they noticed a significant uptick in the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: number of wounded civilians that were coming to them for help.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And so all day and all night they're treating all
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: these people that are horribly wounded with gunshot wounds and
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: other wounds, and so at some point Ephrem and the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: others begin asking these people, you know, what happened to you?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: This seems unusual that so many people would show up
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: with these wounds, and they all just seemed to be
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: in shock. No one was able to really talk about
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: what happened, but a few people mentioned there had been
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a massacre somewhere nearby. But when they pried for more information,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: there was a language barrier issue, and there was just
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the fact that they were overwhelmed with patients and they
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: needed to make sure their focus was on treating them,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: not talking to them. The following morning, though, Efrem and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the others got up and decided they wanted to push
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: farther north into Isis held territory to see if there
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: was evidence of a massacre. To try to figure out
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: what happened to all these people that were showing up wounded,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and so Efrem and the other volunteers they left their
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: aid station building and they moved north about one block
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to this huge intersection, and there they tucked up against
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: this huge concrete wall that protected them from Isis. Isis
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was down the other road that ran through the intersection.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: They were holed up in this huge bombed out hospital
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that overlooked this intersection, and so from where they were
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Isis couldn't see them and they couldn't shoot them. At
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: some point, Ephraim poked his head around this wall, looking
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: down the road towards this burned out hospital, and what
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: he saw along the road shocked him. There were dozens
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and dozens of civilians that had been killed, laying all
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: over the place. It would turn out the day before,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a huge group of civilians had attempted to flee the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: city and they ran in front of that burned out
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: hospital where Isis was, and they'd gunned them down, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: they killed over two hundred civilians, men, women, children. They
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: didn't care, and they wounded at least one hundred others,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and so that was why there was that huge uptick
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in wounded civilians the day before. And so as Ephraim
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: is scanning this carnage, being careful not to stay exposed
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: for too long, he notices one particularly large pile of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: bodies was about twenty or thirty bodies. He sees in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this pile, there's clearly movement, and he can see there
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is a little girl who's attempting to hide herself under
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: her dead mother's clothing. And then next to this girl
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: were two other adult men that clearly were wounded but
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: were alive from immediately starts yelling to them to run
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to him, Run to him. You're going to get killed
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: out there. But the three of them were completely shell shocked.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: For the past twenty four hours, they had been laying
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: inside of this pile of bodies, and so they were
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to move on their own,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and so Efhram realized unless they did something to get
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: them out of there, they were going to die. So
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Efrem and the others ran back to their Iraqi army
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: counterparts and they got them to sign off on a
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: rescue mission, and their plan was they would have one
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of the Iraqi tanks drive down that road straight towards
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that hospital where all the IIS fighters were, And right
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: behind the tank would be an Iraqi humby, inside of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: which would be Efram and the other volunteers. And so
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they would go straight down the road. The tank would
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: serve as a sort of shield for the humby, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: after the tank passed the pile of dead bodies, the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: humby would be lined up right next to it. From
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and the others would hop out. They'd grab the girl
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and the two of their men, pull them back in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the humbes, and then the two vehicles would back up
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the safety. Once this plan was in place, From and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Dave and the other volunteers contacted the American military in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the area and they got them to authorize a smoke screen.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: They would fire artillery shells with air burst smoke grenades
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that would obscure the view of the ISIS fighters in
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the hospital. They wouldn't actually be able to see the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: tank or the humby or this rescue operation taking place
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: right in front of them. And so shortly after these
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: plans are totally finalized, and Efhreim and the others are
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: loading up in the humby and they're getting in position
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to turn that corner and begin this operation. The driver
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of the Humby says, you know what, I don't want
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to do this anymore. It's not safe. I'm not willing
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to do it. Ephraim and the other volunteers tried to
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: convince him to still do the operation because they didn't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: have time to get a replacement Humby, and they had
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: already coordinated with the American artillery units that were going
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to be firing these shells at a certain time, and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: so they really didn't have an opportunity to do this
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: operation again if this guy backed out. Not to mention,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: if they didn't get out there quickly, these three people
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: were going to die anyways. And so finally, when Ephraim
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: realized this driver was not going to butch, he was
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: not going to go in this operation, Efrem and the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: others got out of the Humby and they walked up
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to the tank driver and they asked him, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: are you still prepared to go on this rescue operation?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: And he said he was. And so even though if
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: they went through this mission it would mean Ephram and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the others would be on foot behind the tank, completely exposed,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: they were still totally down for doing it. In fact,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Ephram would say, at no point did they consider canceling
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the mission. They were so focused on saving these three
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: people that they were prepared to sacrifice themselves to do it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And so the tank driver closed his hatch, Ephraim and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the others got behind the tank. They'd turned that corner,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: so they're facing the hospital, and then a couple minutes later,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: as planned, American artillery launched these air burst smoke grenades
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that totally obscured Isis's view, and as soon as those
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: smoke clouds were in the air, Isis came out and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: just started firing randomly straight down in the general direction
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of where this tank was. They couldn't really see the tank,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: They had no way of knowing what they were doing
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: out there. They just knew something was going on. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: so meanwhile, Ephraim and the others are tucked up behind
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: this tank as it's slow rolling in, as rounds are
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: impacting all around them. Mortars start landing all around them,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and it turns out there were other IIS fighters not
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: just directly ahead of them in the hospital, but also
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: off to their side and other buildings, so they were
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: getting hit from two directions. From remembers as he was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: behind this tank, trying to stay as small as he could,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he began dry heaving because he was so terrified. He
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was completely convinced he was going to die that day. Eventually,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the tank made its way just past this pile of bodies,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and at that point Ephraim actually stepped out and fired
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: back towards isis in the hospital and over towards the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: berm to provide some cover fire, while Dave and another
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: volunteer ran over and pulled the girl and the other
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: two men out of the pile and behind the tank.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: The girl and one of the men were okay, they
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: were not badly physically hurt, but the other man was
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: badly hurt and he couldn't walk, and so, thinking quickly,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Fim and his team found a piece of sheet metal
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: on the ground behind this tank, and they rolled him
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: onto it and used it like a stretcher and began
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: dragging him as the tank began moving in reverse, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so as bullets are still flying all around them, rockets
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: are landing next to them, they're moving, they're making good progress.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: When the wounded man slips off of the sled and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he lands right in the tracks of where this tank
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is going to go, and for a variety of reasons,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Ephram and the others had no way of communicating with
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the tank driver. So the tank driver is just going
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to keep on moving and he's going to run over
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: this injured man who can't go anywhere, and so, thinking quickly,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Ephraim leaps down. He grabs the injured guy and he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: rolls with him out of the way of the tracks
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: right as it goes past him. But now Ephraim and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: this wounded man are outside the protection of the tank,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and rounds start impacting all around them. The smoke screen
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: at this point is pretty much cleared, and so Isis
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: sees them, and Ephraim at this point makes a heartbreaking decision.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He looks at this guy who he knows cannot move himself,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: he's badly wounded. He makes eye contact with him, he
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: holds his hand, and Ephraim just shakes his head and says,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, because he knew he couldn't move him fast
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: enough behind the tank before both of them got shot,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and he couldn't throw him on his back in time
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: before both of them got shot, and so he had
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to leave him afrom j He leapt behind the tank
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: right as a volley of fire hit right where he
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: had been standing, and then Ephraim and the others continued
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: moving back. That wounded man would go on to be
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: killed by Isis. Only a few moments after Ephraim was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: back behind the relative safety of the tank, he suddenly
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: fell to the ground and felt a pain in his
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: right leg. He had been shot through the leg, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: where he fell was right in line with where one
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of these tank treads were coming. But again, they can't
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: talk to this tank, so they can't stop the tank
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: from running him over. And so a surge of adrenaline
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: came over Ephraim and he leapt up onto his feet
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and just continued hobbling behind the tank despite this gaping
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: hole in his leg. Eventually they made it all the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: way back to that intersection where they had started, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the only way they could get back down the alleyway
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to safety with the Iraqi Army was to run across
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a small segment of the street. Basically you needed to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: be exposed for just a second running across, but at
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: this point the smoke screen was gone. Isis knew exactly
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: where they were, and they were waiting for them to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: pop out from behind that tank, and Ephraim and the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: other volunteers are screaming across this gap in the road
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: towards the Iraqi Army to get them to send an
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: armored vehicle across this road, pick us up and bring
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: us back across. We can't run across this gap without
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: getting shot. But because of the chaos and the noise,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the tank is firing, there's mortars, there's rockets, there's gunfire.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. The message was just not received. And so
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: in a sudden fit of madness and prostration and fear
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and all sorts of things, Ephram just runs across the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: street and he gets to the other side miraculously without
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: being hit again. And there he tells the Iraqi Army
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: send an armored Humby across this gap. Get the girl,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: get the guy, get the rest of the volunteers, save them.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Seconds later, an armored humby cross that gap. They picked
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: them up and brought them back. And at this point
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: from is now lying on the ground behind that concrete wall.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So he's relatively safe, and he's getting his leg bandaged up,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and he remembers when the girl and the guy were
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: brought out and they were safe and alive, the Iraqi
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: army erupted in cheers. It was this unblo believably happy
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: moment in an absolutely tragic, horrible time. The Iraqis would
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: transport Ephraim in an armored ambulance to an AID station
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: south of where this intersection was, and there they would
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: put him on a cot and a doctor would rebandage
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: his leg, and then he would walk away. And so
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Effram was left inside of this room to kind of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: think about what had just happened. And he looked over
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to his left, and just two beds over from him
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was the girl he had just nearly died saving, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: she was sitting on her cot. She wasn't looking at him,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: she was looking straight ahead. Her dark hair was matted down,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and she was just kind of staring into nothingness. It
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: was clear she was still in shock, but she did
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: look relatively unhurt. And then at some point another Iraqi
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: doctor came over and gave her some food and water,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and she ate and drank ferociously. Ephrom just stared at
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: her in awe. At that moment, she was the most
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: important thing in his life. And as he's staring at
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: this miracle child, the doctor that had given her food
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and water noticed him staring, and he came over to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: e from and he just said, her name is Demoah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: She's four years old, and she's going to be just fine.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: After the doctor had walked away, Ephraim pulled his hat
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: down over space and he just wept. Ephraim never had
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a chance to actually speak to Demoah because she was
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: so scared of everyone around her that he decided to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: just give her her space. But he would later find
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: out that she was reunited with her living family members
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and today she is alive and well. After his injury,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Ephraim was sent back to the United States, and it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: was then that he learned their rescue operation had been
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: filmed by a guy who was there that day documenting
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: war crimes by Isis. He saw this rescue operation happening
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and he just started filming it. After this man posted
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the footage online, it went viral and before long, major
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: news outlets all over the world were reaching out to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Ephraim and the other volunteers for interviews. This was the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: story that me and my teammates in Virginia in that
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: office saw in twenty seventeen, and that image we saw
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of Ephraim standing behind the tank with the AK forty seven.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: That was moments before he rushed out behind the tank
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and provided cover fire for Dave and the other to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: run over and grab the girl and the other two men.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The gunshot wound that Ephraim sustained in his leg wound
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: up being relatively minor if you consider gunshot wounds to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: be minor. It did not hit an artery and it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: did not shatter his bone, and so after only a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: few months he was more or less back to strength,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and instead of just taking it easy, he was in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: another conflict zone in Burma, this time working with a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: new volunteer organization, one that he founded called Stronghold Rescue
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and Relief, and their mission is to protect and care
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: for families and conflict zones. Their motto is the only
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: men to do nothing. Despite being a very small organization,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: they are having enormous impacts all over the world, but
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: they need our help. They rely on a small army
• 29:42
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• 29:45
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• 29:48
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• 29:52
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• 29:55
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• 29:58
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• 30:01
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• 30:04
  Speaker 1: their army is in the description of this video. Also,
• 30:06
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• 30:08
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• 30:10
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• 30:13
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• 30:26
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• 30:31
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