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Out of world war i. just where i am here in florida last night at dinner asking people, do you know who tomorrow is and most americans dont know. i really think that every veteran fears being forgotten. this was a chance yesterday for the president to high like not only the sacrifice of american veterans but our role in the war itself, in world war i and our role as leaders in the world. he missed that opportunity that americans made to end the great war, which was ironically incredibly brutal i...

All of its her richl and its horror. and i thought, you know, 15 years on lets go back tow that story if we want to understand where we are now in the longest war in american history, lets look at the origin of that, the first foot soldiers of the war on terror. and whats striking is how, i think, today its easy to have kind of a glib attitude about war. we hear lots of talk about, you know, war is -- you know, war takes a heavy toll on those who fight it and their families. and thats really wha...

Were 20,000 troops that came in to kind of stabilize the situation and then, you know, years to come we had up to 100,000 troops there. and i think, you know, theres just something very different when you have that number, sort of so-called big army come in where it can be perceived by the locals that maybe these people are here as occupiers, even those who might support the objective as opposed to small groups of guys who inevitably have to work with the local forces on the ground because they ...

And whats striking is how, i think, today its easy to have kind of a glib attitude about war. we hear lots of talk about, you know, war is -- you know, war takes a heavy toll on those who fight it and their families. and thats really what i wanted to get into in this film, and the emotional impact of it. not to say that wars arent necessary because sometimes they are and nobody -- these guys did what they did willingly and theyre very proud of it. now, i mean, nobody is more anti-war in the broa...

Objective, as opposed to small groups of guys who inevitably have to work with local forces on the ground shss because they dont have the manpower to be overwhelming. so i think theres that question of perception. >> yeah. you know, you can tell, again, that its very personal for these men. how did these missions change them and their families? what toll did it take on them? >> you know, i first met these guys in 2002 on another assignment, so right after they had come back from afghanistan. and...

Zones. >> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel the networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we went to th...

About the war itself, yes, should we have been in it a little bit earlier? probably. again, this is a civil war in syria. his comments about three-quarters of the planes returning to bomb, thats a really, really old statement. its no longer occurring. some of these things are just politics-generating rhetoric. thats unfortunate. there are a lot of nations stepping up against isis. we are seeing increased intelligence in terms of how to attack them. the critical piece is how do you get -- is it c...

>> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan, its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel the networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know exactly what we were going to find. we went to the korangal valley ...

Narco." thank you for joining us. "el chapo" is a huge nightmare for the mexican government. they said he would never escape. are you surprised it happened? >> i am surprised in some ways. part of my cynical side -- no i am surprised. more importantly, i think im actually really depressed. and im not in mexico right now, but ive noticed social media a similar despondency. there are a lot of advances made in the drug war since 2006 2007 especially with the drug cartel. you can disagree with polic...

Zones. >> on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been incoming rounds from at least two direction on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for jushlists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008 nbc newss richard engel, the networks chief foreign correspondent heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at a lonely outpost called restricto. >> we didnt know exactly what we were going to find....