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>> cooper: pete berg, who directed the movie "lone survivor," first met luttrell after he'd read his cked by luttrell's condition when he went to visit him in his house in texas. >> berg: i went in there and it was... it was almost like living in a shrine. it was nothing but pictures of his... his dead brothers, and flags and helmets and mementos and pieces of uniform from his dead brothers. and on the... in the middle of the living room floor was basically a tombstone with the names of the... all of his brothers that have died in that operation. and marcus would... would sit in that house... in that moment, in that experience, in that gunfight. he was almost living inside of it when i first met him. >> cooper: marcus luttrell has suffered both emotionally and physically, but his family and friends say he is getting better. he has a service dog, mr. rigby, who never leaves his side. he's also gotten married. he and his wife melanie have two children. luttrell has also had time to piece together what happened to him when he was badly wounded on the mountain in afghanistan, including de

peat pete berg directed it. i enjoyed it. you got your high school diploma, isn't that correct?to do it for a year. >> beside letting my kids shoot paint ball guns at some of my friends. make them understand the value of an education. so i didn't want them saying, well, dad you are semisuccessful. you didn't go to high school. never mind college. why should we? and also, you know it was one of my biggest regrets. felt that was something holding me back from being as successful as i wanted to be. >> jimmy: will you go on to community college or how will it work from here? >> i'm going to harvard, baby! you know what i would love to study film at usc, ucla, love to study business -- >> jimmy: what is the point, really? what is the point of doing that? i am here to talk some sense into? you don't need to study anything anymore. >> you know what it is just things that interest me. so if i can continue to further my education and, help, help to -- further my career and success. >> jimmy: if you have a crappie attitude like that. you are not going to go anywhere. >> i am working on it

. >> pete berg who directed the movie "lone survivor" first met latrell after he read his book.erg was shocked by latrell's condition when he went to visit him in his house in texas. >> i went in there. and it was almost like living in a shrine. it was nothing but pictures of his dead brothers and flags and helmets and mementoes and pieces of uniform from his dead brothers. on the middle of the living room floor was basically a tombstone with the names of all of his brothers that had died in that operation. and marcus would sit in that house in that moment, in that experience, in that gun fight. he was almost living inside of it when i first met him. >> marcus latrell has suffered both emotionally and physically, but his family and friends say he's getting better. he has a service dog, mr. rigby, who never leaves his side. he's also gotten married. he and his wife melanie have two children. latrell has also had time to piece together what happened to him when he was badly wounded on the mountain in afghanistan, including details of gulab's role in saving his life. now, eight yea

berg at n 3 r. as on -- npr. as an up start, somebody who did not fit the mold as pete said and who was cold calling, the losers of cases in lower courts to see if they wanted to appeal to the supreme court, was a model that really hadn't been used before. i remember interviewing another top advocate of the, before the supreme court and asked him about tommy and he said, well, you know you wouldn't want your heart surgery done by the, by the heart surgeon who called you up and asked if he could do it. >> who was that? >> that was a fellow by the name of john roberts who became a chief justice. i think he is sort of eating his words on that. so i think, tom had the reputation of a real innovator within this stuffy world of the supreme court and he was a good media source. so that when the blog came along i think he was, he and amy were able to over come some initial suspicions because this was a totally unique creature here. it was a blog about an institution by someone who, interacted with that institution as an advocate. somebody who wouldn't have an interest in pissing off that institution to be blunt about it.

. >> peter berg is a director who you interacted with to make sure he understands the need to use real military people as a consultant and actually in films like this. >> absolutely. petewood using veterans as assets, making his films. >> why is that important? >> behind the camera veterans are great employees. they do a great job making films. in front of the cameras and as consultants, they make the portrayal more accurate and that's what americans need to see. >> you want something else to come out of this film. what? >> when you see the end of this film, it's probable -- it leaves you with the most powerful ending i probably ever seen to a movie. people will walk out compelled to do something. what we've been table to do is start the lone survivor found. giving people the opportunity to donate to groups that work with veterans and families. >> it's called you got your six national campaign. >> got your six is our campaign. there is two other nonprofits that will benefit from the lone survivor fund. the foundation is the second one. and the navy seal foundation will benefit from any proceeds that inspired viewers are going to make after they see this. >> anything el