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Around the front side of the vehicle to assist him and we got into a struggle with him for it seemed like minutes but just seconds and i just -- you could -- i barely even heard watch his hands. at that point the grenade detonated. i went flying into the stone wall behind me and dunham had hugged the grenade and all i saw was his upper torso lift up and flop back down on the ground. kind of at that point where things got real intense because we started taking enemy fire and from my perspective my ears were ringing, i had black spots in my vision. you could feel the bullets flying by so i was j...

Those 18 years i learned a lot. these guys, i wasn't really prepared for what they were going to tell me and i just wanted to tell the story and, you know, they told it. they told it. >> bill: you met him on an airplane. remarkable. his mother got in touch with you. that's a story in itself. i got sergeant dean back while the satellite holds. sergeant dean, tell us about dunham. what kind of a guy was he? >> yes, bill. he was -- he loved everybody. it didn't matter if you knew him or not. he was always holding the door open for everybody, letting them go first. letting all his marines eat firs...

Local police station with our company commander and battalion commander was there. when he left his convoy was hit by an ambush. so corporal dunham's squad and company commander we all responded to that attack. when we got there, we got hit with an ambush as well so we dismounted and went into the city sweeping for the enemy. in the process of this sweep, we came across a long line of cars that were basically in a traffic jam so we decided to start doing some quick searches of the vehicles. corporate dunham and myself moved to this white land rover type vehicle and were going to search it when...

Today. from the state of maine. >> absolutely. >> bill: remarkable stuff. to sergeant dean, he was your best friend. what was he like? >> a frozen picture. we'll try to get an answer from sergeant dean on that. >> bill: you put together a hell of a film. it is gripping. what did you learn about these men through the process? >> you know, i've known these men for over 18 years now and this whole thing started when i met corporal dunham before he deployed to iraq. we were sitting next to each other on a flight, 2004 i found out he had passed and then i found out what he had done and his mom actu...