"They [Iraqi children] suffered but they looked happier than most children in toys r us" really hit me. We take everything for granted here in America.

My mother cried daily, hoping to see me on the news. My dad couldn’t even watch.

For anyone curious.. Shoshana Johnson survived. She was rescued by the Marines on April 13, 2003 after 22 days in captivity along with the other 5 members of her unit. She was Awarded A Purple heart, Bronze star, and Prisoner of War Medal. She suffered bullet wounds on bolth ankles, she was the first black female Prisoner of War in the military history of the United States.

No Journalist's named Brian were hurt filming this.

My guy crawled up WITH THE NEWS MIC to get that on the field interview. Gotta love the 2000s tech haha

And they wonder why they were ambushed so much. All you had to do was turn on a tv to see where the enemy was going to be.

"Sadam surrendered to me personally." – Brian Williams

Hearing "Target Iraq" with that tune takes me back to the dinner table eating dinner with my parents and brother when I was only in the 3rd grade. I will never forget that tune.

Reporter: “What do u see out there in the distance?”

I was in 3BDE 101st ️ we had only been back from the initial assault into Afghanistan 6months and then we left for this. It was amazing to see with your own eyes even though I had seen a lot in Afghanistan and we were one of the very few units to go to war already. But Afghan was small. This was massive on a scale you can’t fathom unless you were there.