. >> the one west point graduate who was killed in action was lieutenant donny tiller who was our classmatehe was shot down the last day of the war. >> so it brings it home to you guys. the sacrifice of so many of the men and women who have gone do this institution. >> quite frankly, that's what helped motivate me to continue to stay in united states army and continue to serve through bosnia, into the last couple of wars which we have seen those on 17 and 18, the great monuments for "operation iraqi freedom" and "operation enduring freedom." >> reporter: the west point course is unusual in that the final two holes are both par 5s -- long in golf speak. it so happens that they also commemorate our nation's two longest wars, iraq and afghanistan. >> in those wars combined, 95 pest point graduates have been killed in action. 93 men and two women. over 5,000 soldiers. so those two markers are really two of the first monuments to those wars. it resonates with us, whether it is soldiers that served with us, whether it was our classmates, whether it was those that we knew and served with on the so