Black Hawk Down | movie | 1997 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The story behind the infamous downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter by Somali gunmen. | dG1fejlQUFZXSGpTQlk

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00:00I don't know what the other guys were thinking, but I was kind of thinking, wow, you know,

00:10we're pretty much invincible.

00:16Up until October 3rd and 4th, every mission we did went exactly the way it was supposed

00:23to go.

00:32He walked up to me and he told me he had a really bad feeling about today, meeting October

00:373rd, and he tried to hand me his little packet to send off to his parents, and I said, no,

00:44keep it.

00:45I said, you know, I'm going to see you in about half an hour anyway.

00:47I said, nothing's going to happen, and that was the last time that I saw him.

00:54I know when our helicopter came in, we immediately started taking fire from the ground.

01:02All of a sudden, they're already shooting at us.

01:14I was just shooting everything that moved.

01:16It didn't matter to me.

01:17You know, I just started to yell, I'm hit, I'm hit.

01:22It was one nasty gunfight.

01:24I was bowing.

01:27I've actually killed a person.

01:31His eyes were wide open and his mouth was open like he was screaming, but he had already

01:36died.

01:37He was already dead.

01:39I know, I guess it's unethical to shoot women and children, but is it unethical when they're

01:46trying to kill you?

01:50I felt so alive because I was literally that close to death.

01:58What are we doing here?

01:59How have we mucked up so badly?

02:00How could this possibly have happened?

02:06It's the closest thing to a national holiday in a country without a national government.

02:11On the day of the Ranger, Somalia remembers America's bloodiest battle since the Vietnam

02:16War when the world's greatest military power collided with one that was nearly good enough.

02:23New world order descended into chaos as the most ambitious humanitarian mission in modern

02:29history ended in bullets, missiles, and death.

02:37But if the moral seemed to be no good deed goes unpunished, that isn't the story of how

02:42good intentions wrought deadly results in Somalia.