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joining me now is retired army colonel jack jacobs, and msnbc analyst and medal of honor restipulatento someone who passed through walter reed. >> everybody who was banged up pretty well went through walter reed. >> president eisenhower passed away at walter reed. his granddaughter said it's like losing your favorite uncle. what do you think the legacy of the hospital is going to be to so many families and different people that have had an experience there? >> it's going to last a long time because we're closing it now after a lot of people who have been badly wounded have beenç fixed there in this currt conflict. you're going have a legacy. its name is going to mean a great deal for a long time to come, and those of us who were treated there and it's quite a few, like i said, hundreds of thousands. >> you served during vietnam. what was the reputation of walter reed? i was telling you my dad serveed in vietnam too. he passed through there at points, and so for me it's certainly in my family's lexicon. what was it like, the reputation of it? >> well, walter reed going to walter reed m

retire colonel jack jacobs is looking for answers to 43 years of questions.rom the vietnam battlefield where he fought and bled and endured the transformative experience of his life. in a modest home, an unlikely reunion with retired brigadier general, vietcong army, the man who gave the order to attack jacobs' battalion, killing or wounding half of them, but even war wounds heal, the sharp edges of combat fade and the adversaries of 1968 find common ground. >> the emotional part is meeting for the first time again, somebody who also fought for his soldiers. it's a bond that is impossible to break, no matter what country you belong to. >> reporter: even though you were enemies. >> yeah, even though -- we were enemies on paper. >> reporter: making rough sketches, colonel jacobs, now a west point professor of military strategy, wants to know. >> how many days before we got there did he know we were coming? >> reporter: it was an unrelenting ambush, seen from the air by the helicopter pilot he radioed for help. don't bother, he said. it's too hot down here. it's

joining me, colonel jack jacobs. can you believe that guy walked away?yeah, he was wearing a protective suit. very, very lucky guy indeed. it might be he's going to have some kind of problems later on, but tell you what it feels like, identify been close to explosions in the past. you feel this warm rush of air lifting you up and slamming you to the ground. your initial response is this is just a video, not happening to you. in fact, of course, it is happening to you. >> well, it is and it's the kind of thing our soldiers face all the time with these i.e.d. explosions. >> it does look like something out of the hurt locker and folks who are disarming improvised explosive devices in southwest asia are a lot tougher people than i am. they're well trained and have protective suits. we lose them all the time. imagine being that close to an exploding bomb without a protective suit. >> i can't even -- i look at that and every time you see it, particularly from this angle, it's unbelievable. the guy touches the door, boom. >> and even though he's been protected,

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