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Both requested, denied and then subsequently appealed. i mean, ly ti just i cannot rest asking for over 300 combat missions. i assume you thought when you were flying thosehtht and riskit your life and landing on carriers at night, most dangerous thing any human being can do that you were defending the u.s. constitution. toother words, your rightt have your own religious views. didn'tha you think that ? yes, sir. no, we absolutely i mean, we believe everything we've done to datehi in honorable services as well as what we're doing now is consistent with those views . that view is just not share...

And it was hard waiting for my husband to come back from a combat mission for the first time, but still we have some food in here, like volunteers are working and people are bringing food. everyone here is helping each other, and that's really cool. and like right now, right now everything is mostly fine. we just have a lot of times when we hear the -- someone screaming here and we have to just stand up and go to a shelter and stay there like for ten minutes. but still there is a lot of our friends here also working, volunteering or going on some combat missions and i'm very happy to see them....

We can't obviously independently confirm those numbers. what have you been hearing or seeing about these foreign fighters? >> well, this really just speaks to the david and goliath nature of this fight. ukraine knows what it's up against. they know how massive the russian army is, how they are coming at ukraine with this overwhelming force. we know that they had amassed just shy of 200,000 forces on three sides of the ukrainian border. so it was announced a little while ago that ukraine would be standing up this international legion, as they called it, for foreign volunteer fighters to come in...

Missiles, they're kind of entry level anti-aircraft missiles, but they've been very successful. the ukrainian government claims -- have been shot down. and so successful have those stingers been, that they forced the russians to fly their combat missions at night. we can't verify the footage you showed earlier on, that was a nighttime mission to the next step, it's to provide the ukrainians with an anti aircraft capability that works and ice. as the defense secretary addressed the house of commons yesterday, we're looking at the high velocity missile, which will be able to achieve that. we're ...

And commemorate them and you know that's what's remarkable, is their stories. each and every one of them is unique and we hope to inspire individuals to connect in some way to a story in an individual and one of these heroes. >> sure, absolutely. major general patrick brady, you had in the 1970s perhaps the most terrifying job on the place of the earth, you served as two years as a helicopter ambulance pilot in vietnam. how many missions did you fly? and why did president nixon honor you without medal of honor? >> i flew about 2500 combat missions in two years in vietnam we were asking 5,000 p...