through the events that are happening right now and the reasons why things happen in the book are still happening now. so with that said, before we get started, i am completely open for questions. if you have questions even in the middle, please ask them because of we can get a conversation going that would be good. let s start from the beginning. i was working at the associated press and covering fort bragg and i was told by the u.s. central operations command about this story at the time they were going to award 10 silver stars to the team members in the mission and the third-highest medal for valor and it s also rare to see 10 silver stars at the same event. of course that piqued my interest and i went out to fort bragg to meet with the guys and i was one of the first reporters to talk to them. as we get into the story you will realize the story, there s just something about the mission and just something about the story and what happened that i could not shake and after