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Vest, grabbed some ammo and he ran. into bullets coming down like rain for 100 meters to resupply his comrades out in that humvee. when they needed more, he ran back. blasted the locks off supply rooms and sprinted yet again, dodging explosions, darting between craters, back to the humvee. the ferocious fire forced them inside. and so it was that five american soldiers, including ty and specialist stephan mace, found themselves trapped in that humvee. the tires flat. rpgs pouring in. peppering them with shrapnel. threatening to breakthrough the armor of their vehicle. worst of all, taliban fig...

Is facing the sources of pain. as we prepare for the reading of the citation, i'll ask you, ty, to never forget the difference that you've made on that day. because you helped turn back that attack, soldiers are alive today. like your battle buddy in that humvee, brad larson, who told us, i owe ty my life. because you urged -- you've had the urge to serve others at whatever cost, so many army families could welcome home their own sons. and because of you, stephan's mother, vanessa, who joins us again today, is able to say ty brought stephan to safety which in the end gave him many more hours o...

But in those hellish moments, one man went down. then another. stephan disappeared into the dust and smoke. back in that humvee, ty and brad held out for hours. rolling down the window just a crack, taking a shot over and over. holding the line. preventing that outpost from being completely overrun. ty would later say, we weren't going to surrender. we were going to fight to the last round. then they saw him. their buddy. stephan, on the ground. wounded about 30 yards away. when the moment was right, ty stepped out again. and ran to stephan. applying a tourniquet to one of his legs, bandaging ...

This. ty carter bending over, picking up stephan mace, cradling him in his arms and carrying him through all those bullets and getting him back to that humvee. then ty stepped out again, recovering a radio. finally making contact with the rest of the troop, and they came up with a plan. as clint romesha and his team provided cover, these three soldiers made their escape. ty, brad carrying stephan on a stretcher through the chaos delivering stephan to the medics. the battle was still not over. so ty returned to the fight. with much of the outpost on fire. flames bearing down on the aid station ...

One standing position. >> reporter: just 53 americans fought valiantly against up to 400 taliban insurgents. shown here on this terrifying video posted months later. and as i held my son, i learned of eight other sons taken from us that day in what was the deadliest day for the u.s. in afghanistan that year. over the next two years i tracked down the stories of the eight men lost that day. kevin thompson, josh kirk, michael scusa, justin gallegos, chris griffin, josh hardt, vernon martin, and stephen mace. i wondered why they were stationed at the doomed outpost at the bottom of three mountain...