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Honor. without safe roads, cop keating depended on helicopters for supplies. but the rocky makeshift landing zone and enemy fire meant deliveries were sporadic. leaving the troops to live off mres. >> when the helicopters were able to come, they gave us mail. and a lot of the families of soldiers started shipping us canned foods and snacks and anything like that, and it was -- any time the helicopters came, it was christmas. what are you going to get? you know, i loved red vines licorice. you kn...

Grab mace. but the incoming fire is too intention. sergeant larson tells him, its a suicide mission. >> because of larson, i survived that day. and he held me back when i could have died going to get him, because i was going to go get him. >> time passes and the enemy fire focuses on other parts of the camp. carter thinks he hears a horn from a nearby truck. he darts to it. inside, he finds more ammo, and he realizes now is the time to rescue mace. >> i thought i would ask sergeant larson again,...

Is no surrender. im going to be the biggest pain in the butt i can be. >> this dawn-to-dusk battle would test that resolve. the taliban studied how the americans responded to previous attacks. >> when the enemies werent shooting at us, they were shooting at the weapons. so they were disabling the weapons. >> the insurgents know the outpost relies heavily on mortars, so they make the big guns their first target. killing private kevin thompson as he raises to his post. troops begin running much-ne...

Caliber machine gun. so he runs back to the barracks through a barrage of enemy fire. >> i remember entering the door and a lot of yelling. i remember sergeant hill telling everybody to be quiet. >> carter returns and hes very sweaty, very tired. >> and he said that we need to know who needs what. and i caught my breath. thats when i yelled, everybody needs everything. >> carter grabs lubricant for the machine gun and ammo. >> right then sergeant francis asks me where i was going. i told him and...

Depended on helicopters for supplies. but the rocky makeshift landing zone and enemy fire meant deliveries were sporadic. leaving the troops to live off mres. >> when the helicopters were able to come, they gave us mail. and a lot of the families of soldiers started shipping us canned foods and snacks and anything like that, and it was -- any time the helicopters came, it was christmas. what are you going to get? you know, i loved red vines licorice. you know, the power bars and the granola bars...

So there is no giving up, there is no surrender. you just -- im going to be the biggest pain in the butt i can be. >> this dawn-to-dusk battle would test that resolve. the taliban studied how the americans responded to previous attacks. >> when the enemies werent shooting at us, they were shooting at the weapons. so they were disabling the weapons. >> the insurgents know the outpost relies heavily on mortars, so they make the big guns their first target. killing private kevin thompson as he rais...

Wasnt really paying attention to that. i was completely blocking that out. there could have been an entire beret of rounds coming in, but my entire focus was on mace. >> carter reaches mace. >> i asked mace, are you still alive? he said yes. and he started to turn, so i turned him over. >> carter ties a tourniquet on maces legs and stuffs gauze into bullet holes. he then tells mace to pretend hes dead and sprints back to larson in the humvee. >> he says, what is your plan? i said were going to b...

That john williams, five-time academy award winner will be conducting the orchestra in some songs from the movie "lincoln." then it ends with the fireworks. start at 9:10 and go for 20 minutes. its good time here in dc on this july 4th. reporting live from dc, back to you. >> clayton: thank you so much. >> peter: it is a great show. over to you. >> gretchen: after single handedly rescuing 36 marines and soldiers trapped in enemy fire in afghanistan in 2009, sergeant dakota myer became both the f...

Happen. >> tell me why its so important to you that the enemy not get their hands on a dead american soldier. why does that thought bother you so much? >> because theyre ours. i mean, to give closure to the family, you know, to have their son one more time. i mean, im -- were not going to leave someone behind. never going to do it. >> the men retrieved the bodies of justin gallegos, vernon martin, and chris griffin. but enemy fire kept them from rescuing sergeant john breeding

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