sebastian junger: i started war reporting in 1993. and it was the most incredible i could have imagined making. i was very traumatized. just about everything. war had never affected me personally. until my friend tim was killed. i knew people who had been killed but nothing that went to the center of my life. but tim was killed and that is what happened. wore long cover enough, it will cost you something. it could cost the lives of the other people that you love and it caught up with me and him. at 30 years old i would have made a different decision. if i had not been married, i would have made a decision. but at the age of 49 years old married, suddenly war reporting, it suddenly seems like a selfish thing to do. selfish to the people that i care about. i wouldn't have thought about that when i was younger at all. but in my late 40's and 50's, it felt like, to the point where you have to put other people's welfare first, ahead of your own. 49, that meantof not going off for a couple of months. my wife and i got the news about him fro

this features sebastian junger and lara logan. >> my daughter asked me if she could come with me.he is five. mommy, can i come with you? sweetheart, no, i'm working. eventually, i said, well, it is not safe for little kids. there are some bad guys there. it is not a safe place for children to go. she said, then, why are you going? i said, because there are always good guys. everywhere there are bad guys, there are also good guys. i'm going to be with the good guys. she said, if you don't come back, that means the bad guys got you. and i said, i'm coming back. your mommy always comes back. not just going to war. you try looking at your five-year-old and six-year-old when you are sterilizing every single piece of clothing with you and putting it into clothinh you and putting it into waterproof containers. liberia had one of the most regal civil wars -- most brutal civil wars in history. liberians told me over and over that ebola is worse than war, because it is a silent killer. i was teasing sebastian. he was at a high school while we were in afghanistan. he is at waterproof contain

. >> sebastian junger documented the harrowing ordeal that jesse's platoon went through in the award-winningtaries "restrepo" and "korengal." >> it truly is, i guess you'd say, hell, to be quite honest. >> jesse's mission was to be the gunner on the third gun truck that would be over-watching a number of, uh, paratroopers that were gonna be clearing a village. >> my buddy started to step out of the truck and... >> a command-detonated ied blew up jesse's vehicle. >> before we knew it, i mean, we were mid-sentence. i was wakin' up on the bottom of a mountain. i would have to yell up for help in between the -- the gun bursts because i was completely immobile. um, my legs were shredded. >> his paratrooper, uh -- uh, platoon mates fought to him, secured him, performed life-saving measures. >> as they carried me to the bird, the last thing i saw was kind of like the mountains. and i went -- i went dark. >> back home, jesse's mother got th >> they shared with me that he had been hurt and was, um... they were patching me through to the surgeon. and, uh, he explained jesse's injuries and that he was

this features sebastian juncker and lara logan -- sebastian sebastian junger and lara logan. >> my daughter asked me if she could come with me. she is five. mommy camera -- mommy, can i come with you? sweetheart, no, i'm working. eventually, i said, well, it is not safe for little kids. there are some bad guys there. it is not a safe place for children to go. she said, then, why are you going? i said, because there are always good guys. everywhere there are bad guys, there are also good guys. i'm going to be with the good guys. she said, if you don't come back, that means the bad guys got you. and i said, i'm coming back. your mommy always comes back. not just going to war. you try looking at your five-year-old and six-year-old when you are sterilizing every single piece of clothing with you and putting it into waterproof containers. liberia had one of the most regal civil wars -- most brutal civil wars in history. liberians told me over and over that ebola is worse than war, because it is a silent killer. i was teasing sebastian. he was at a high school while we were in afghanistan. he is

sebastian junger, at the end, is the author of "the perfect storm," which was on the bestseller list for, like, five years, i think; a very long time; movie with george clooney. and even before 9/11, i think you were saying 1996, you were going to afghanistan and reporting from there; did a profile of ahmad shah massoud in 2000 that became a national geographic documentary; more recently embedded himself kind of on and off for a year in the korengal valley of afghanistan with a unit from the 173 airborne brigade combat team-embedded along with the photojournalist, late photojournalist tim hetherington, who was killed in libya in 2011. and you used some of the material from those-you know, from that reporting for your book, "war," and a documentary called "restrepo," which won the 2010 grand jury prize at sundance. sebastian is also -- he's had an interest in dangerous jobs for a long time. one of his early jobs was he was the guy who climbed the trees at the tree-removal companies and cut the branches off the trees. so he's been doing this sort of thing for a while. he's also the aut