they did to get me on short notice, after jen griffin our pentagon reporter the reached out to them, and spoke with sara who set them up, this is the same group who got many people out ofe sa afghanistan when it fell, they are still getting people out of afghanistan, they have a time, formerr soldiers and and intelligence came in s straighthe away from poland, m they were.e risking their own lives to get one american home, one had a great friend to died in afghanistan, they watched a friend of his, ben die, his friend ben had daughters he said i lost my last friend ben who had daughters at home, i'm notin going to lose another one, i was taken in hands of this incredible group of people. >> let me go back a little bit. m talk a little more about your daughter. everything goes black. nothing ness you have no idea what happened. h adyou feel you see the presence of your daughter right there in front of you. you mentioned in the book you believe in god. >> yeah. >> do you believe that was god's sendin g your daughter to say, daddy, wake up? >> absolutely, my family are angels, they were

hospital very close to dying at that point and s save our allies was cu called by our reporter jen griffinoing in to rescue you another american, they whole time came in, they tracked me down they found me. then to get me out, with no safeways, they found that polish prime minister of the on first covert missioned to visit zelenskyy, if we could break it through the lines we could reach of polish prime minister's train, we could get in with him, as i crossed into poland the u.s. army of waiting for me, administration said we can't go to ukraine to get him, there was a black hawk waiting it pinched me up. and with so many other injured, i was flown to san antonio, 6 months being rebuilt by u.s. military, put together, p prosthetics and skin grafts, i was given my limbs back and my life back, every day i wake up. you never stop. i am here today one year in, for from happening, to tell that story, the story of the incredible people, doctors, who came to save me. that is who i think of what i tell my story it them, pierre, and sasha who died that day. it is everyone else who caught up in the w

i later learned what was going on, jen griffin, save our allies began to work within seconds and there were times if decisions wouldn't have been made in seconds, i wouldn't have survived. looking into that, learning about that is one reason i wanted to write the book, heroes came in and risk their own lives to save me. for many, former military, they said, there is an american stuck in ukraine, we will do whatever to go in and get him back to his family and that is what they did. they didn't want recognition, they believed in doing the right thing and that is what they did for me and they should get recognition. save our allies continues to work to save people around the world. >> shannon: so many heroes through every page of the book. it was fascinating, it was almost full circle because of your father's story about being rescued by american gi's. >> benjamin: end of second world war, he was in manila and lived under japanese occupation, most of his family killed by the japanese. the u.s. army came back in, he was told, you have to find the american lines and little kids fought throu

jen jen griffin save our allies incredible group goes and rescues people in trouble abroad. incredible squad of people all former military came straight in that day between jen, this team on the ground and the u.s. military themselves who picked me up once i got into poland. this is about the incredible people who did it behind me. for me, writing this book was about finding out all these incredible different angles, the poll liberal prime minister whose train i got out on and incredible characters who pulled me out of the dark places. c-17 flying from germany to texas. and this one hero when i was feeling at the lowest point ever came up and spoke to me. actually, he offered me a gummy bear while i was shackled down. little moments like that. people went out to get me. it wasn't the end for me. goodness out there. all these pieces put together in the book that hopefully tell the incredible story of what all these incredible people did for me. >> bret: i love when you are recovering and you have this moment with huckleberry the labradoodle you pay fetch with him and it struck

jen griffin, the second she found out, the second she found out, she picked up the phone and called serve said something has happened in ukraine. we need people to go. and can you help? and immediately, that minute, they were looking for us. they had our pictures, they had the license plates out there. they were looking at ways in and out of the country. they put this team together. >> sean: save our allies, these are amazing people. >> they're saving lives. they're doing it today. they got people out of afghanistan. people need help, need evacuating, when the big forces can't do it, we will go and save those lives. that's what they did for me as well. when i was in hospital and they found me, they didn't know how they were going to get me out. they couldn't drive me because they couldn't remove the big shrapnel in my neck. they couldn't find me because they couldn't find a small runway for a low-flying plane to come in. they didn't know what to do. out of nowhere, u.s. intelligence, we found out that the polish prime minister was the first covert visit to go visit slen ski. his train was

. >> we cross the border to poland, jen griffin worked closely with the pentagon, we were met by a u.s sent me a video, i see the helicopter. lift up. >> ben's father was evacuated by americans, it waan emotional thing for men to be in the same situation. >> go. >> when i knew he was alive, he was in germany, i was sending him voice notes and video. >> morning mate. rick here. >> something to keep him entertained. the poor guy is just lying there. >> been quite a serious acciden accident. >> i'm quite an annoying person, i wanted to irritate him with messages. >> everyone else in the kitchen at the time is fine. >> gosh, rick. i can't begin to describe rick. >> i didn't go to the hospital. blame 8 litt >> only time i get emotional is when i think about certain people who have been so kind to us. sorry. rick. is amazing. he absolutely stepped in when benji has been away, he didn't need to be asked. >> there are some people you can trust with your life. and who you turn to in some dark times, he was there the day after this happened to hold my children, whatever he could. >> i flew on la

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griffin has more. well-deserved honor, jen, not years but decades in the making. >> that's right, john.after first being recommended for the medal of honor for heroism in vietnam, retired green beret colonel paris davis, one of the first block officers to lead a special forces team in combat finally received the highest military award for valor. >> captain davis realized he was the last american standing. without hesitation, he yelled i'm coming for you. i'm coming for you. >> in an interview with fox news, colonel davis, 83, described why he and his men were not scared on june 18, 1965, as he led a detachment from the fifth special forces group. >> they knew that i was not going to do anything that would have put them in harm's way. >> and what he was thinking during the 19-hour battle as he braved enemy fire to save three soldiers after being shot himself. >> finish the mission, complete the mission, try to do it as quickly and as daringly as you can and get back as saving as you can. >> soon after davis was nominated for the medal of honor but the paperwork disappeared. a few years l

our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen>> reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. >> reporter: the iranian drone carried out an attack on a maintenance facility at a u.s. base shared with the kurdish defense forces in northeast syria, midday on thursday. >> a u.s. contractor was killed and five u.s. service members and one additional u.s. contractor were wounded. >> why was there not a contingency to shoot down the drone if it was coming into the base? >> again, we take a variety of measures to safeguard our people. it is an inherently dangerous place and again, we'll look into the details of the actual type. >> reporter: the u.s. response was swift. president biden directed defense secretary lloyd austin to launch precision airstrikes with fighte