started putting the barriers back up and people took them away. when we were getting ready to go to the white house, one of my friends said, we should grab the barriers so they can t put them back up. that s when we started grabbing them. reporter: . you did. the common response is wow. just wow. seeing do you that. sergeant, why did you go on sunday? like i say, i went back to me, for them to close down the memorials where these guys go and pay their respects to their brothers, it s just wrong. sometimes it feels like we re used as pawns and we shouldn t be used as pawns. we fought, we bled. we lost friends and that s our right to go see them and we should be allowed to see them when we want. absolutely, what was the message? well, the only reason we grabbed them was because we didn t want them to get put back up after we left. sergeant, how hard was that?
you re sitting this on a segueway. you have injuries from war. you re still recovering from this. how tough was it grabbing them and bringing them over there? i was already on my segueway. my buddy was carrying it and i told him we could put it on the segueway and balance it u. it s long walk. it worked out just fine. it wasn t hard at all. sergeant, a lot of people are assuming that veterans are being used as political pawns. what do veterans want? what s really on their hearts right now? i do think that we re being used as pawns because whenever our government disagrees on something, it seems like the first thing that gets threatened are our pay and benefits. like sequester. right. and i mean, we volunteered for this. a lot of people on the comments of that picture are saying, we volunteered for it. they re absolutely right, we did. i volunteered because i want my kids to grow up the way i grew
during one of the most dangerous ambushes during the war in afghanistan. this video shows him bringing a badly wounded sergeant, kennethçez westbrook, to his helicopter. he stopped to kiss him on the forehead before he then westbrook later tide and swenson will become the sixth libyan recipient to receive the award. he died. 4hs family was so thankful the care between brothers on the battle field. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, one common link with all these men: mental illness. should we track their histories or does that violate their civil rights? syria dictator bashar