Danger Close Page #7

around Combat Outpost Pirelli,

the cavalry unit

that I'd been with that day

and for the last few days

on these types of missions,

they came to me and they said,

they thought that

I'd earned my spurs,

since were a cavalry unit.

And yet they had no spurs

to give out there.

One of the guys reached into his ruck

and pulled out a Ka-bar... a knife.

He said, well,

it's blunt, but...

these are your spurs.

With that, I had a Ka-bar now in

my back pocket and it was time.

A 160th SOAR- Special Operations

Aviation Regiment bird

was coming to pick me up

and their L.Z....

Their Landing Zone...

Was inside

Combat Outpost Pirelli.

So even though

the Special Forces A-Team there

didn't want to let me in,

they had to

if they wanted to get rid of me.

We made it to the door

and knocked on the door.

There was no hello.

There was no nothing.

They let me in so that I

could have my 15 minutes

as I waited for the bird that was

going to take me back to Baghdad

and I looked around

to see the changes.

It was good to see

that what Rob had built

was still there.

That this rough team house...

Alone on the fringe

of the empire, as their

Special Forces Commander

Major Derrick Jones

had called it...

That it was still a safe house

being used by

Special Forces Teams

in an area that had

been an al-Qaeda sanctuary

near the Iranian border,

where every day

was a fight for survival.

It was still here because

Rob and his ODA 0-7-2

had built it and fortified it.

I may have only

been on the ground

inside Combat Outpost Pirelli

for maybe 15 minutes,

maybe 20...

but I'd done what they'd asked

and I was able to let them know

that Rob's wall...

The T-wall with the symbol

that says Combat Outpost

Pirelli... was still there.

Did you ever think to yourself

what are the odds...

of this working out?

Pretty low to

non-existent, right?

There was no way in hell that I

was not gonna get this clone,

that I was not going to

complete this mission

for Rob's family,

for Rob's teammates,

because none of these guys quit

and I wasn't gonna quit either.

STACEY:
Sunrise or

sunset, do you think?

NANCY:

I think it's a sunset.

NANCY:
He would be on

the phone talking with

and then all of a sudden,

he'd have to go up on the roof

- and do god knows... so this is...

- Keep watch.

- Yeah, this must be what he had to go through.

- They took turns...

- Yeah.

- Being up there.

What he must've

had to go through.

- (Shawn laughs)

- Oh my gosh.

- "Keep door closed."

- This is Sparta.

Get out of town.

Well, look at that.

For me, it's hard to imagine

that my son had...

Had helped build this.

It's... because he

did build things,

but this is...

it's a lot bigger

than what I thought.

(giggles) Look at all the

clothing hanging up.

SHAWN:
We've never,

until this moment,

gotten to see their house,

and it's the one that Rob built.

STACEY:

That's huge for us.

- It just makes it so he's real...

- Right.

STACEY:

and he really made an impact.

The things that he did

were important and he mattered.

But he didn't do it for himself.

- He did it for others.

- Yeah.

This represents him in a way

because... he built

this for his team.

That's who he was.

That's unbelievable.

STACEY:
You know, if we

were watching it with him,

he'd probably just sit back and

we'd be like, "You did that?"

"You did that?" and he'd

be like, "Yup, I did it.

I guess like it doesn't

surprise me in a way.

I could see Rob doing this

and not complaining

about it whatsoever.

- Right, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

- Just doing it.

Not having a problem with it.

NANCY:

I just miss Rob.

(music plays)

(vocalizing)

Breathe... don't speak

You're fading out

Don't... close your eyes

We're almost there now

(back up singers)

We're almost there

We are ghosts in our homes

Singing songs all alone

But we've fought to be free

and this pain isn't me

We are ghosts

now in our home

We are ghosts all our own

In this valley

we call home

We will fight to be free

Come unchained

from our grief

We are ghosts now

in our home

These friends remain

But this place

just feels so strange

My eyes... betray

I don't want to leave

But I can't stay

We are ghosts in our home

Singing songs all alone

But we've fought to be free

And this pain isn't me

We are ghosts now

in our home

We are ghosts on our own

In this valley we call home

We will fight to be free

Come unchained from our grief

We are ghosts now

in our home

I've been so... in love

And love will find

Its way home

And I've been told...

That love

Will find...

My name's Rob and I'm 14.

BOB:
All right!

NANCY:
Good.

SHAWN:

It's early now.

My second day of school.

There's mother and Shawn

in the carriage.

This lady just crossed

the street without looking.

Robbie's so

concerned about that.

We are ghosts now

in our home

We are ghosts

on our own

In this valley

we call home

We will fight to be free

Come unchained from our grief

We are ghosts now

in our home

(cheering)

Well, I shipped out

with a job to do

Headed to desert sands

To build a wall

And draw a line

And that wall,

that wall still stands

They cut me down

with the bullet fire

Cut down by hands of man

My body lay

for all to see

But that wall,

that wall still stands

It still stands

It still stands

You might scorch the land

You might kill a man

But that wall,

that wall still stands

Well, the ones who stand

behind me now

They don't know who I am

But what matters most

When danger's close

Is that wall,

that still stand?

It still stands

Oh, it still stands

You might scorch the land

Or you might kill a man

But that wall,

that wall still stands

(vocalizes)

Now every wall

one day will fall

When steel and wood

turn to sand

But what I believed was good

Still holds its ground

And that wall,

that wall still stands

It still stands

Oh, it still stands

You might scorch the land

You might kill the man

But that wall

That wall

Yeah, it still stands

You might scorch the land

You might kill the man

But that wall,

that wall still stands

Yeah, that wall,

that wall still stands

Yeah, that wall,

that wall still stands

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