get together and go to europe together? it was spencer and my idea. i have wanted to do something like that for a long, long time. and coming off the deployment while spencer was in azors seemed like the perfect time to do it. it s like there is no way i m not going to do this. i m doing this trip, if you want to come you are already in portugal so why not. anthony said well, i haven t seen you guys in a while so let s do this so we all did. the idea was to meet up and travel around on a train. it turned out very differently, didn t it? oh, yeah. much differently than you expected. yeah. what can you do? okay. so, take me to that the day that this whole thing unfolded. what time do you board the train, about? boarded the train at 3:17 p.m. local time. and you were headed to paris? yes. what time were you supposed to get there about? it was around 6:35. if i remember correctly. so what happened? did you hear something? well, spencer and anthony were asleep.
event for us live. it was amazing. and we would really like to say thanks to him a lot for that. it s amazing. these three young men, i suppose to you in some ways they are boys. well, i keep referring to them as the boys. but, i guesses that just what families do. but, certainly, they are not boys. indeed, they aren t. they are heroes. you know spencer too, right? i do. grew up next door? how come every time i mention spencer. you laugh, alek. every time you see his picture come up on the screen you laugh. why is it? he is he a crack-up. is he a hilarious dude. he is super funny. he is larger than life, i guess but in a funny way. he is a great guy. if he is around, whatever you are doing is a lot more fun that s for sure. i will put it that way. if is he around, probably a lot more safer. any of the three of you around a lot more south africaer. i hope so. how badly was he injured
spencer was on the aisle seat. i was on the window seat and i said let s go. and spencer had to be the first one to get up. he didn t hesitate at all. he got up and just ran straight at the guy while the guy was trying to get his ak working to shoot him, mind you. and spencer got him and got to choking him and we all just started beating on him. i mean, like i mean, i have told other people, this but we frankly just got very, very lucky. his handgun only had was only able to fire the one round. then the magazine dropped out of it. ak, i m pretty sure he just had it on safe or wasn t able to get it functioning in the first place. we got lucky in five or six different ways. if any one of those things went different, we all would have died.
to your destination and then what happens? well, at that point i had already cleared all the weapons and put them in a corner by a door. spencer was still providing medical care on mark. i mean, he saved his life, no doubt. when we pulled in the station doors came up. after five or six police and paramedics came on board i found a gap and got right off the train. at what point did they recognize that you were that you guys were the heroes in this, that you essentially prevented a lot of lives from being destroyed and killed? immediately came off the train they realized we were the ones around the terrorist and mark. and then they did some initial questioning right there on the platform and they figured out that we were the ones that were most directly involved. and so they took us immediately to the plus station for questioning. how long were you there answering questions?
that time we noticed that mark was shot through the neck. mark is the french american guy. the actor? no. is the i think he is a different guy. i m not sure though but anyway, yes, mark got shot through the neck. and his wife brought it to our attention. i told spencer. spencer immediately started running over to him, started performing first aid on him. just held down the artery. at that point i took the ak 47 and went back to check the other train cars, to make sure there was no other shooter or anything like that. i told the other passengers just to keep everybody in the car where they were and don t let anybody to come up front. then i came back. the terrorist was already tied up. chris did a good job there spencer was still working on mark. i made sure he didn t need anything else. we just got some first aid kits like that. i checked mark, to make sure he wasn t didn t have any other gunshot wounds.