This is Jocko podcast number 458 with echo Charles and me jock a willing good evening echo good evening

They treated us like animals

You're laying in the fetal position on the ground,

and they don't even, they don't care.

Their duty was to keep me from dying because

then I wasn't worth anything.

And I thought, please tell God that I need some help. We need to get out of here.

Later, all of a sudden, it's just this eruption of gunfire. And I think, okay, well, this is it. This really is truly the end.

And I cover up with my blanket again and I just start saying, oh God, oh God, oh God.

And I just remember thinking, or maybe I'm saying out loud,

I cannot survive this.

And then all of a sudden, I feel these hands on me,

roughly grabbing at me.

Then I try to protect myself and I pull the blanket

closer on top of me.

And then I hear my name. But it's not a Somali accent it's an American accent and I can't

compute like I can't understand that somebody with an American accent knows my name.

And they say, Jessica, we're with the American military.

We're here to take your home and you're safe.

I pulled a blanket down from my face and I all I see is black black

masks black sky and all I can say over and over is you're American, you're Americans, I don't understand, you're American,

thinking how did you get here? And I'm still alive.

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