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It had a very unexpected ending, this story. i did not see this coming. i don't think the audience saw this coming. not from the way they reacted. this is not how i thought this story would end. >> as americans, we have a responsibility to learn from your service. i'm thinking of an example, lieutenant alvin shell who was based here at ft. bragg. a few years ago on a supply route outside baghdad, he and his team were engulfed by flames from an rpg attack. covered with gasoline, he ran into the fire to help his fellow soldiers and then led them two miles back to camp victory where he finally co...

Hero, alvin disagreed. i'm not a hero, he said. a hero is a sandwich. i'm a paratrooper. >> i'm not a hero, a hero is a sandwich. says the actual flesh in blood hero in the middle of doing his incredibly heroic thing in wartime. i did not see that line coming in the president's speech today. the president's remarks today at ft. bragg are sort of the closest thing we are going to get as far as i know to any sort of victory day parade after iraq. it's the closest we're going to get to a ticker tape ceremony to mark the end of the iraq war and all the veterans of that war coming home at last. mor...

With burns. when they told him he was a hero, alvin disagreed. i'm not a hero, he said. a hero is a sandwich. i'm a paratrooper. >> i'm not a hero, a hero is a sandwich. says the actual flesh in blood hero in the middle of doing his incredibly heroic thing in wartime. i did not see that line coming in the president's speech today. the president's remarks today at ft. bragg are sort of the closest thing we are going to get as far as i know to any sort of victory day parade after iraq. it's the closest we're going to get to a ticker tape ceremony to mark the end of the iraq war and all the veter...

With burns. when they told him he was a hero, alvin disagreed. i'm not a hero, he said. a hero is a sandwich. i'm a paratrooper. >> i'm not a hero, a hero is a sandwich. says the actual flesh in blood hero in the middle of doing his incredibly heroic thing in wartime. i did not see that line coming in the president's speech today. the president's remarks today at ft. bragg are sort of the closest thing we are going to get as far as i know to any sort of victory day parade after iraq. it's the closest we're going to get to a ticker tape ceremony to mark the end of the iraq war and all the veter...