In rammadi there would be wounded or killed every day and what's weird is and this is not uh This is a sad thing to say We countered americans like we didn't really like when irakis got killed and wounded It was almost like we they didn't go in our numbers like i've seen. And so it got to the point I think a week or two into this Uh into the end of the battle that my hands started shaking the whole like uh You know saving private Ryan handshake, you know where the um Tom hanks characters hand was shaking That was that was happening to me.
Ephraim Mattos is the founder of Stronghold Rescue & Relief, a non-profit organization that protects and cares for families in conflict zones.
He is a former Navy SEAL, and the author of “City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul”.
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