rob o neill s war is now over. his days of parachuting out of airplanes and chasing enemies of america are behind him. after more than 16 years of fighting for freedom, rob has returned to the mountains and trout streams of montana where it all began. rob, why is it that you say montana will always be home? well, look around. it s beautiful here. it s peaceful. it s quiet. i grew up here. and this is where everything started for me. and it s like the comfort zone. it is so quiet here. this has got to be so much different than the noisy gun fights that you were in for your entire career in the military. this a stress reliever? yeah. it s a stress reliever. it s nice to hear the water.
he entered the national stage in july, 1984 when delivering the key note speech in the democratic national convention, bringing him into the ranks of potential presidential contenders. he was hospitalized as recently as last month, treated for heart problems he was 82 years old i m patricia stark. now back to our special. with osama bin laden dead, the mission was complete. after a few days back home, rob and the team flew to fort campbell, kentucky, for a private meeting with the president, vice president, and cabinet. he was just proud of us. he came in i remember hearing his distinctive voice. hey, everybody. walking in a big smile. just cool, happy. he hung it out there. that s a big call. and he made it. i was standing next to one of the guys on the mission who asked who killed him, who took the shot. then my buddy and i were like,
rob o neill s war is now over. his days of parachuting out of airplanes and chasing enemies of america are behind him. after more than 16 years of fighting for freedom, rob has returned to the mountains and trout streams of montana where it all began. rob, why is it that you say montana will always be home? well, look around. it s beautiful here. it s peaceful. it s quiet. i grew up here. and this is where everything started for me. and it s like the comfort zone. it is so quiet here. this has got to be so much different than the noisy gun fights that you were in for your entire career in the military. this a stress reliever? yeah. it s a stress reliever. it s nice to hear the water.
the crystal ball is getting its final touches. it would be raised 470 feet above times square, making it the largest crystal ball in the world. the new year s celebration in times square starts wednesday at 6:00 p.m. i m kelly wright. now back to the man who shot osama bin laden. with osama bin laden dead, the mission was complete. after a few days back home, rob and the team flew to fort campbell, kentucky, for a private meeting with the president, vice president, and cabinet. he was just proud of us. he came in i remember hearing his distinctive voice. hey, everybody. walking in a big smile. just cool, happy. he hung it out there. that s a big call. and he made it. i was standing next to one of the guys on the mission who asked who killed him, who took the shot. then my buddy and i were like,
well, we all did. why didn t you just say, i did it? it was not about me. my guys got one of our guys into a spot to take the shot. the analyst that found him, working for years, they deserved the credit. the pilot that got us there. the guys on the ground that physically got people into place by blowing up doors, breaking down stuff, holding security and finally someone gets a shot. definitely it wasn t me. it wasn t the team. this was the country. this was the entire country. we were just the means to the end. rob reserves one more deployment to afghanistan but then decided it was time to least military. i stopped getting adrenaline in gun fights. that s dangerous. you can get complacent. someone would shoot us, we would go up and eliminate the threat. i realized that kind of not carelessness but complacency could potentially get me killed and i want to be around for awhile. that was a long, hard process. but i was done with the 12