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this is highland park, an affluent chicago suburb known for its safety. we certainly have great cops there. four hours yesterday those police hunted down the person of interest. arresting 21-year-old aspiring rapper with a very long history, what you can see online, violent postings, had been there a while. they caught him about 5 miles north of the mass shooting. identified him as 21-year-old, again, violence online is what marks his history. those who managed to escape the bullets raining down became witnesses to this unforgettable crime skin. >> we saw people falling, people screa...

Staff sergeant by gallantry and intrepidity as an infantry squad leader with c first cavalry division near the hutu kim sun valley republic of vietnam on one december 1966. with a bunker and concealed trench system garrisoned by the north vietnamese troops in vastly superior forces, two squads of the platoon had deployed. more than open terrain to the east end of the village. the opportunity to ambush they arrived with machine guns and small arms fire against the two squads at the center of the village, killing the platoon leader and the point man wounding four others, then successfully suppre...

>> we cannot be defeated by a force of arms. we will and in vietnam. reporter: by december 1966 there were almost half a million american forces in vietnam by 1968 the american troop total reached 537,000. even at those levels the war for many reasons is not being one. >> good evening, my fellow americans. reporter: in november 1959 president nixon would take an office that january announced a new policy. >> it is not the easy way but it is the right way. reporter: nixon just withdraw us troops over time and this plan was intended to leave the south vietnamese to fight to win on their own. the...

>> we cannot be defeated by a force of arms. we will and in vietnam. reporter: by december 1966 there were almost half a million american forces in vietnam by 1968 the american troop total reached 537,000. even at those levels the war for many reasons is not being one. >> good evening, my fellow americans. reporter: in november 1959 president nixon would take an office that january announced a new policy. >> it is not the easy way but it is the right way. reporter: nixon just withdraw us troops over time and this plan was intended to leave the south vietnamese to fight to win on their own. the...