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The media is very aggressive, and if there's a big story, pretty much anything's going to be done to try to get that story.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Something I am still not comfortable talking about, but it is part of the story, is when American bodies are dragged through the streets ... the shock factor goes up another level.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
For a long time, I was pretty bitter about the whole thing because, you know, my friends are dead and within 90 days, the U.S. withdrew all forces from Somalia and basically gave up.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some people like being the center of attention, but I don't.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We didn't have the resources we needed to do that mission. We had asked for them, they were denied, and the results speak for themselves.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You have got to be hopeful ... telling yourself that someday, I'm going to get out of here to keep yourself motivated psychologically.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I remember just trying to come to terms with it, looking up to the sky and thinking I can't run, I can't fight, and I can't hide. ... It's over.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are badly injured, we are alone, we are surrounded and there are really no reinforcements left to come to our aid.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I felt like somehow, miraculously, a reaction force has gotten here much faster than I would've ever thought possible.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That's the turning point where I went from being another American fatality to (realizing) they wanted to keep me alive and brought me into captivity.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Whether it sounds good or not, in the end Somalia has turned out to be a great thing for me, because of the effect that it's had on me and the opportunities in my life, is Somalia a good thing? It's a horrible thing. But, you know, I guess there's something to be said for taking something horrible and finding a way to make it in any way positive.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every once in a while, there'll be something that comes up in the news about it, or someone will recognize me somewhere, and the topic will come up, and so they all know, but it isn't who we are. It doesn't define us, at all.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Telling the story was absolutely therapeutic for a long period of time, i didn't realize it, but one theory I have about why I don't think I suffer from most of the symptoms that would be associated with PTSD is that I have told this story.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There was a time where I cried every day, it would be a wave of emotion that just came over me ... my friends are dead, and if that doesn't bother you, then you are made of something different than I am.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If I face challenges or setbacks, I put it in perspective by saying I should be dead, i've been given this second life that's almost as long as my first life, at this point.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If Somalia doesn't happen, we aren't as ready for the war on terror, to me, that is the one silver lining to what happened. ... I truly believe it left us better prepared for the conflicts that we face today.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I just told him that I was proud to be an American, or something stupid like that, i didn't tell him what I really wanted to say.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My way of dealing with stress is to make jokes, basically, their (the Red Cross) conclusion was that the Somalis liked me.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When they brought some of the guys from the unit over, that was a very emotional moment because, first of all, I got to see these guys. But that's also where I found out that two of our very close friends, Donovan Riley and Cliff Walcott, had been killed, i knew my crew was gone, I had 11 days to kind of come to terms with that, but I didn't know two other very good friends were gone.
– Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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