s.e.a.l. teamfective, the west may be better served leaving him in place and that al qaeda is grooming for a leadership role. robert o'neal says that they would prefer to stay out of the headlines. al qaeda wants to stab us in the back. my time serving is over but i assure you there are other others there that will go and get him. let's hope so. we said we never forget. that's what my pin says. tuesday is the 17th anniversary of 9/11. for more of my thoughts on this issue, check out my piece now at cnn.com. >>> still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments. this is last chance to vote before we give you the final results of the survey question of the day at smerconish.com. should the justice department investigate the identity of the anonymous "new york times" author? (vo) this is not a video game. this is not a screensaver. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ it

osama bin laden was killed by s.e.a.l. team 6 before he achieved that goal. the question for voters this fall is whether their country will move beyond this chapter in troubled history or whether they will move beyond a politician who has done more damage to the dream of america than any foreign adversary ever could. couldn't agree more, joe. >> i love that line, that roger cohen line that america is an idea. and if you strip america of its ideas, forget about knocking down buildings in the financial district, forget about running planes into the pentagon. those are tragedies, but those tragedies bring us closer together. america is an idea. you gut america of an idea, that is when you do the most harm. roger cohen wrote that after donald trump was elected and across the world you have people looking at a country that is saying they want to ban people from coming to america because of their religion. you have just this week brett kavanaugh who wants to be on the supreme court refusing to answer whether people should be banned from coming to the united states

were there on handment some of the remarkable team from around the world who helped come together for what was at times a deadly operation where one thai s.e.a.lvers lost his life. >> we don't do these things because we expect them to happen. we want to do this to help people. this is not why we do the operations, we do it from the heart. >> reporter: the boys have been kept at arm's length by thai authorities from journalists, but this was an opportunity for basically photographs of them. and one rather unusual moments, the boys were asked to walk through a simulated cave tunnel to perhaps reenact some of their harrowing ordeal for some three weeks underground in some press conference with journalists. some of the boys said they would like to grow up to become professional football player. they were happy to be back at school now. one boy saying he would like to grow up to be a s.e.a.l. diver. clearly inspired by the heroic work that was done by some of the s.e.a.l. divers to pull them out. but this was clearly an effort to celebrate also the combined effort that many people in thailand who are transfixed by the rescue effort and the escape i

s.e.a.l. >> i want to be an architect. >> reporter: there's one ambition quite a few want to have in the future. >> i want to play professional soccer. >> you want to play professional soccer someday. >> yeah. >> reporter: most teamslit up, but this wild boar team and this coach their a bond that will hold them together forever. why do you think the world was so interested in this story? >> people around the world see us as their own kids. they love us. they want us to be safe. >> me and the brothers would like to thank the king, who has always helped us and out of the the cave. >> reporter: creating a new legend. >> yes, a team for life. an unforgettable story forever. david muir will be back with us next week. for all of us at abc news, i'm amy robach. good night. >>> looking for ways to keep passengers and its own