5/24/2015: Ending America's Longest War, Coming Home, A Forgotten Corner of Hell
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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For Memorial Day weekend, 60 Minutes presents a special broadcast on war stories. Correspondents Lara Logan, Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper report.
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| 0:32.3 | Tonight on this special edition of 60 Minutes presents war stories. |
| 0:38.3 | Now that U.S. combat operations have officially ended in Afghanistan, |
| 0:43.1 | it's up to four-star general John Campbell to make sure the country doesn't go the way of Iraq, |
| 0:49.3 | where territory that was fought and won at great cost to Americans was lost |
| 0:54.0 | because the Iraqi military wasn't |
| 0:55.6 | strong enough to hold the enemy back. Tonight you'll hear from the general and the president |
| 1:01.9 | of Afghanistan as America's longest war comes to an end. Are you concerned about the rise |
| 1:08.4 | of the Islamic State and what threat that could pose here? |
| 1:11.6 | Yes. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes. |
| 1:13.6 | Lance Corporal Jonathan F. Stroud. |
| 1:17.6 | Lance Corporal Gregory A. Posey. |
| 1:20.6 | This was September 2009. |
| 1:23.6 | We were there as golf companies stood rigid in a mudwalled memorial service. |
| 1:28.3 | It was the first time the troops had come to grips with the terrible loss, |
| 1:33.3 | signified by seven battlefield crosses. |
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