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so thankful for his return. they have all made it a mission now to raise awareness of the scores of other americans being unjustly detained around the world. so you were in a russian prison for 985 days? yup. and it s now been three weeks since you ve within back in the united states. how are you doing? i m doing well. i feel better every day that i m here. have you been able to fully grasp that you re free? no, so, you know, the last couple of days it s been been more real to me, but there s a time there where you you just don t accept at all that you re back, you can t understand that you re actually free. free, a reality that was almost unthinkable to this american son, brother and former marine just a short time ago, but today after enduring a hell few have lived to tell about trevor rowdy reed is back on u.s. soil, unafraid and sharing his story for the first time. you re a marine. one of your jobs literally in the past was to guard and prot ....
Almost did not travel to russia, so this is going to sound stupid because of what happened, but i had already bought a ticket, and i was like i don t want to pay that 200 bucks to change my ticket, but at that same time i thought, okay, they have like clearly taken this maroine hostage. there s absolutely no way they are going to do that a second time. in the summer of 2019, reed ignored his instincts and followed his heart to moscow where he planned to spend the summer with his girlfriend of three years, a russian lawyer named lena. where did you meet her to begin with? i met her online on a dating app. and you would visit her and she would visit you? yeah, yeah. she would come to the u.s. and visit me. i actually went to russia once to see her and meet her family. i did not know russian at all, and that s one of the reasons why i decided to start studying ....