Original subtitles

( intro music playing )

( grasshoppers singing )

Sebastian Junger: Do you miss combat at all? Brendan O'Byrne: Yeah.

Do you? I do.

Even if I don't want to have that,

I'm still like this invincible kid

that wants to go back and shoot at more people

and have them shoot at me.

( chuckles ) It's a crazy game.

It's crazy.

In Afghanistan, I remember one time

we were called down to a mission

to go do something.

You know, someone's getting overran

or someone's in some serious trouble.

I remember the feeling of that.

Yeah.

The sense of urgency, the excitement for,

like, what are we going to be put into?

What if it's just like an all-out battle? Yeah.

And that was exciting to think about.

Like, it's complete madness.

But when we were in it,

that's the only way we could have thought.

Guillermo Cervera: The worst I found, it was in Libya.

We were walking in the desert on a straight road.

And there was these bands of guys shooting mortars,

not far, like 20, 25 meters... Wow.

...50. We were going to run,

and then we saw the machine guns

shooting from the other... ( making machine gun sound )

...and the fire was coming closer

like "pshh pshh pshh." Jesus.

You couldn't even move.

And that was, like, for two minutes.

Two minutes is a lot.

Yeah. It's a long time. It's a long time.

You feel, like, scared, but you feel excited too.

Yeah.

I read this quote from George Washington.

He was in his first fire fight.

They ambushed some French soldiers

who were scouting the frontier, and they lost a bunch of guys,

but they beat the French.

He wrote a letter afterwards and he said,

"I heard the bullets whistle by me

and I have to admit, it was a charming sound."

The father of the nation.

He had his first fire fight and he fell in love.

George Washington. Yeah.

( voice of Junger )

voice of Tim Hetherington: Just me and Sebastian checking out the next story.

( voice of Hetherington )

( conductor speaking ) Junger: Absolutely.

Hetherington: We're gonna find this footage sometime in the future

after the world has changed.

( conductor's voice fading )

Junger: By the time I'd found this footage,

the world had changed.

Tim was dead.

We were both reporters and he was killed in Libya

while covering the civil war.

I still made the trip we'd planned,

but I went with Guillermo, a photographer

who had actually been holding Tim's hand when he died,

and with Brendan and Dave,

two soldiers Tim and I had known in Afghanistan.

The four of us would set out from Washington D.C.

and walk north in a kind of high speed vagrancy

right up the East Coast.

We'd all seen a lot of combat,

we'd all lost close friends,

and we were all trying to come home.

I thought a 300-mile walk might help.

( whistle toots )

Junger: Did you guys sleep okay?

Dave Roels: No.

Did you wake up every time a train came through?

( chuckles ) Oh, yeah. I was probably up for most of them.

Junger: Yeah. I didn't know you could go to New York from D.C.

on an Acela at 2:00 AM. That's news to me.

Roels: Yeah, and Brendan was, like, standing over me

staring at me and that made me pass out.

O'Byrne: What happens with me

is like I have to think things through before I sleep.

And it took all night for me to think it through.

It normally happens that way.

Junger: What were you thinking through?

My alcoholism.

( camera clicking )

It's a funny place to wake up at age 50, right here.

Normally if you were 50 and you woke up here,

it'd be a really bad sad story. ( chuckling )

It'd be-- it feels... Yeah.

Start panhandling somewhere... ( guns popping )

Support fire from, uh, the base right down the road.

Man: When I shoot from down there--

Roels: Do you know what the clearance on those trains are,

on the track? And if you could lay

between the two rails...

Junger: You might get peeled off your back by the winds

and just slammed into the bot-- under carriage.

Uh-huh.

What's that? Man: Trying to get on the house down there?

The white house with the green shutters?

Yeah. Probably hell fire. Yeah?

It gets better than that.

Man: That's what it's gonna feel like tonight. Ken and Tino go behind

and then we're gonna wake up at 2:00 in the morning.

( firing )

( man shouting ) ( laughing )

Junger: None of us were going back to war again,

or so I thought.

The idea was to take a series of trips

throughout the course of a year,

walking through every season,

starting in Washington D.C. and just heading north.

We would bring my dog, Daisy, for company and protection,

and a cameraman to record our experiences.

And while we were moving through America,

we would have a 300-mile conversation about war;

about what it does to you,

about how it changes you and about why you miss it.

Why it's so hard to come back from war and re-enter society.

We wanted to walk along the railroad lines whenever possible.

Rail lines go straight through everything.

They go right through the ghetto,

right through the suburbs,

through the farms and the forests.

You see the backs of the houses,

the backs of the factories.

And walking on Amtrak property is completely illegal,

so we would have to move fast and stay out of sight.

That might feel a little like we were on a military operation, I thought.

That might feel like we were back behind enemy lines.

Roels: Good eyes, dude.

Jeez, see anybody up there anymore?

Nobody's fucking up there.

Oh, it should be to the left of that first building.

I saw him walk up that way.

Yeah, he might have left the platforms.

Oh, yeah, I think we have an Amtrak cop in here.

Yup, we're gonna take care of it.

Officer: You can't walk on the railroad tracks.

You can't be anywhere close to these tracks.

You're trespassing... ( Daisy barking )

Okay. Yeah.

Junger: Can we pop off and walk along the road?

Like could we...? You have to be off of Amtrak property.

Yeah, right, right.

Yeah, but the way you are right there, yeah that--

Yeah, okay.

We got-- we got people killed all the time, so... Really?

Yeah, they go by at 120, 150 miles an hour.

That's why... Thanks for being nice about it.

Okay.

Junger: We have to get past the Amtrak service yard right there.

There's a little culvert, like a trench line or something.

I think we can just walk in that.

Junger: You having a good time?

Everything hurts. Everything.

I'm 43, you know.

Do you-- are you hungry, thirsty?

Everything. Hungry, thirsty,

hurt, sad, everything.

Where would you rather be right now?

( laughs ) In a beach in Indonesia.

( laughs ) But, oh well.

Something like that. ( laughs )

Cervera: When I started doing "The Last Patrol,"

I was kind of close to myself.

When Tim was killed,

when I saw him dying,

I was really traumatized with that.

I didn't want to be part of a group.

I was just trying to hide.

But I thought, it's a great opportunity

to take pictures around in America which, for me, is good.

( camera clicking )

So I wanted to do a story about America.

And I just start to realize that it was a story

about our inside.

I think we are related

in some trauma that make us go to war.

Because I think it was like an addiction.

Walking in "The Last Patrol,"

I realized I had a problem.

And the result was that I ended up

with three guys with the same problem I had.

We may never get across this.

Man: Hi. O'Byrne: Hi, how are you?

Woman: Good. How you doing? Swell.

We saw your bikini and... ( laughing )

Just happen to have the red, white and blue on today, right?

This guy-- this guy is a vet and so is he.

Thank you. I work at the old soldiers' home in D.C.

Junger: Do you really? What a wonderful place.

Oh, wow. You know I see these veterans,

92-year-old men,

and their whole mindset is completely different.

When I'm in that world, it's different than out of this world.

It's a unity, it's a bonding,

it's "let's take care of each other."

And then I come back out here and...

( train whistle blows ) ...it's not out here.

No.

But what's your journey about? Tell me about that.

Well, my colleague and I were gonna do this walk

along the Amtrak line, along the rail corridor,

just to meet America. And he was British.

And then he got killed in Libya.

And so I thought I would do that same trip.

And we're doing it along the rail corridor

because railroad lines go through everything. You meet everybody.

Yup. Just goes straight through.

And that's it, right back there.

While we-- And that's the train

that Barack came in when he went to D.C.,

the same train that Lincoln followed.

Really? Yeah, we were all out here.

Yeah? You could tell he was coming.

There was cops all over the bridge.

Really? So... hell yeah! ( chuckles )

You knew his train was coming through, and it did. It was pretty cool.

Well, I wish you all the best of luck, really.

Thank you. Got a wonderful day today.

Thank you. Don't get too hot.

Yeah. Stay drinking.

Roels: Train, guys. Train, train.

Junger: What was the last time you were in combat?

When was the last time someone shot at you?

I think at the beginning of-- in '10.

Do you miss that? No, not-- not so much.

Um, what I liked about Afghanistan--

what I would miss is the troops, the bullshit.

The, uh, you know, the-- O'Byrne: The this.

Huh? The this.

This. I mean, this is, you know,

you just sit here and, you know, there's stars.

Guillermo, have you covered war since I've--

since Tim got killed? Were you-- have you covered any combat?

No. No?

It was-- it was really a shock for me,

seeing Tim die on my legs, you know?

And when that happened,

I'd been already, like, three years non-stop in the war.

Junger: Yeah, after Tim died, immediately, like, that day,

I just decided I was gonna stop covering war.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm glad other journalists do it

because I think these things need to be covered,

but it just-- it just depresses me.

Roels: Another thing too that's kinda interesting,

but like, we wouldn't be here right now if Tim wouldn't have been killed.

Yeah, that's right. Safe to say. I mean--

Well, you know, I-- I wouldn't--

You probably wouldn't be here. Cervera: Yeah, I know.

You'd probably in... Yeah, wherever.

So, when are you getting out of the service?

April.

Oh, wow, in less than a year. Oh, yeah.

Junger: That's gonna be weird.

Yeah. I've never looked for a job.

You've never looked for a job? Ever.

And then buying clothes... Yeah.

...I think will be a little weird,

because really other than going to church on Sunday,

I pretty much just wear the same thing every day.

Yeah. But I-- I would say

that I won't miss, like, the army...

Yeah. ...in a big-- It's been good.

They've given me every single thing I have,

but I won't miss it, that-- the institution.

Roels: I don't know. I guess I look at America,

that I live, uh, you know,

I live in a bubble.

And, uh, and it's a pretty happy bubble.

Junger: You joined up before 9/11.

Roels: 1993.

Why did you join the army? Why?

Yeah. For college money.

Straight up.

Two years I joined, and then I liked it so I stayed in.

It was a peace-time army, basically-- a peace time...

Yeah. But we deployed right away after 9/11.

Did you think, "Oh, my God, now I'm in a war time army"?

No, I think everyone was a bit excited.

You know, at that time I had been in eight years.

You know, it's like practicing for the dance

and now all of a sudden you see a billboard

that says "Dance tonight." You want to get in it.

( shouting )

Man singing: ♪ I'm gonna go there ♪

♪ I'm gonna climb ♪

♪ Now I don't know about no law ♪

♪ I don't see no crime ♪

♪ Well, there ain't no reason... ♪

Engineer: There's one thing I just wanted to tell you.

When the trains go by,

they report people on the railroad now.

All right. So more than likely

they'll be sending the Amtrak police out to find out who's out here.

I-- I-- 'Cause ever since all that mess

that caused you guys to go over there,

they've been stepping up security.

Anybody-- they've been putting up gates up everywhere

and the ranger's supposed to run everybody off.

Yeah.

♪ Is it by the weight of the woman ♪

♪ The weight of the gun ♪

♪ I can't stand it ♪

♪ I can't stand it ♪

♪ I can't wait to see them walls falling down ♪

♪ I can't stand it ♪

♪ I can't stand it ♪

♪ I can't wait to see them walls falling down ♪

Junger: Daisy, come here.

You wanna take a swim? You're hot.

That's fine.

Come on! Come on.

That's a good girl.

( camera clicking ) I think we just wade it.

O'Byrne: My dad passed away three years ago.

And for most of our life, I hated him.

My dad was an alcoholic.

And I was a bad kid.

Me and my father fought

and fought and fought and fought and fought.

( clicking )

And it ended up escalating,

so one night where we were fighting so bad

that he shot me twice.

And then I lied to the police, saying that he had no choice.

And I went to juvenile detention for a year because of it.

I never got a thank you, never got a pat on the back,

never "Thank you for doing what you did."

That sounded weird.

But when I came out of lock-up,

I was a better person.

I believe the day he shot me

might have been the turning point in my life,

maybe the thing that saved me.

( thunder rumbling )

Junger: Daisy was my pillow all night long.

Check it out. She doesn't care. She likes it.

It's a heated pillow. It's a furry pillow.

If you could buy that at Wal-Mart, people would buy it.

Roels: It's a dog-ass pillow.

( all laughing )

"As seen on TV."

"The dog-ass pillow changed my life."

( laughing ) "Thanks, dog-ass pillow."

( all laughing )

( train passing )

Junger: Last night sucked a lot.

O'Byrne: Actually, dude, this is what I want to do for the rest of my fucking life.

This is it, right? You found it?

This is it.

( chuckles ) You-- you got it now?

Yup.

Problems in my life have been solved.

Just one night out in the wilderness,

you see-- I'm gonna put in--

install a sprinklers inside my house.

( laughs ) Just leave them on.

And put a tarp up-- A tarp over your bed?

Yeah. Guillermo?

You know, if you were with a woman, you wouldn't be here.

( Cervera talking )

Would you rather be fighting in a hotel room

with a girlfriend or out here with us in the rain?

Here. You'd rather be here?

Yeah, better. ( Junger talking )

They want to piss us off.

( men laughing )

All the time.

( Cervera talking )

( Junger talking )

And we don't always want closeness.

Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Sometimes you just want to sleep in the rain under a tarp.

Yeah. O'Byrne: Sometimes?

All the time.

( thunder rumbling )

So are we gonna cook breakfast in this shit

or are we gonna just start walking?

I say we start walking. I want some-- I want some, um, coffee.

I say we do make some coffee, though, right?

Junger: It's like milking a huge camouflage cow.

What's the most scared you've ever been, Guillermo?

( stammering )

I think the most scary thing

is when someone takes control of yourself.

Like someone takes you and puts you in a place

and you are just controlled by them, you know?

And you don't know what is going to happen.

More than bullets and-- I don't know.

That's-- you can run away or whatever.

Did you make peace with the fact that you were going to die?

No. But you had time to think about it.

Did you get yourself-- Peace? ( chuckles ) No.

I had that once in Sierra Leone.

We were stopped at a rebel checkpoint.

And they-- they just cocked their guns,

started screaming. And they were arguing with themselves

about whether to kill us.

And that went on for about 15 minutes.

And, uh, I really thought, "This is it."

Like, 50/50 they were going to shoot all of us.

Yeah. And, uh, I just went numb.

You ever think you were gonna die?

No, I don't-- no.

No, you've never been in a situation...

Where it's just like hopeless or you just feel it?

That day, uh, when the war broke up in front of me,

it was my scariest moment.

Because I knew it was bad when we got off the hill.

We were walking on that road and there was nothing,

there was nothing to hide behind.

I hit the ground...

You know, all this-- that first processing happened

and then I bounced back up and I started shooting again

because I was pissed.

And, uh, that was-- it was all over like that.

And then-- and then Steiner got shot in the head.

And then I went crazy, like, in my head.

Like something snapped.

'Cause, uh, it was my-- my soldier.

And someone said, "He got shot in the head."

And, uh, Mac ran past me and he was laughing.

I'm like, "What the fuck are you laughing about?"

He's like, "Steiner is okay."

And it didn't-- it didn't make me feel any better.

It was only the second time I cried in Afghanistan.

Junger: In the-- in the fire fight?

No, that n-- that night.

And what were you crying about specifically?

No-- no control.

I told those guys that they would be okay.

And-- and it really-- it doesn't--

You have no control in combat.

After that, I stopped listening to my lieutenant.

That's when I stopped listening to orders

that were gonna get my men killed.

Well, what would happen if five people

would think that way inside of a platoon?

I-- I'm not-- I'm not--

No, I'm just wondering. It's interesting.

I'm talking about-- I'm talking about leaders.

Leaders? I'm talking about leaders.

I'm talking about leaders being leaders

and saying, "This is good for my men and this is bad for my men."

I got some experience in knowing how to-- when and where to walk.

And I know that down that road, my friends have been killed before.

I know Doc Canning was killed down there.

I know a bunch of guys that were shot down there.

Yeah, but now if you look in the big picture,

if everybody did, now you've got anarchy, chaos and, uh...

Well, I-- I think you're misconstruing what I did.

I-- I stopped listening to orders

that were gonna get my men killed.

That's-- that's what-- But when you-- when you look at it--

Let me just talk. Let me just-- let me finish my sentence.

And after that, after I--

I stopped listening to the orders

that were gonna get my men killed, I felt better.

And that's when I took my power back

and that's when I became less fearful.

But can you know which ones will get them killed and which ones won't?

Walking on a road in the middle of day

is gonna get my men killed.

We can argue it all day long.

Ultimately, we-- we take orders. Junger: Yeah.

It blows, but that's exactly what we do.

I certainly am one to voice my opinion,

but at the end of the day...

Man singing: ♪ When I came back from Luang Prabang ♪

♪ I didn't have a thing where my balls used to hang ♪

♪ But I got a wood medal and a fine harangue ♪

♪ Now I'm a fucking hero ♪

♪ Mourn your dead, land of the free ♪

♪ If you want to be a hero, follow me ♪

♪ Mourn your dead, land of the free ♪

♪ You want to be a hero, follow me ♪

♪ And now the boys all envy me ♪

♪ I fought for Christian democracy ♪

♪ With nothing but air where my balls used to be ♪

♪ Now I'm a fucking hero ♪

♪ In Luang Prabang there is a spot ♪

♪ Where the corpses of your brothers rot ♪

♪ And every corpse is a patriot ♪

♪ Every corpse is a hero ♪

♪ Mourn your dead, land of the free ♪

♪ If you want to be a hero, follow me ♪

♪ Mourn your dead, land of the free ♪

♪ You want to be a hero, follow me. ♪

( birds cawing )

Junger: I first went to war when I was 30.

I went to Bosnia.

And I went partly 'cause I was searching for a career

and war reporter seemed kind of interesting

and exciting and romantic.

But really I went because I felt like I wasn't a man yet.

I felt like I'd never been tested in any real way

and that if I went to war, it would change me

and make me strong and mature me in a way

that I wanted to have happen.

And that worked eventually

over the course of 18 years or so.

I feel like my experiences in war helped turn me

into the person I wanted to be.

That's what I understand about war,

is that it has the power to do that

while it has the power to also destroy you.

Hey, how you doin'? Man: Hey, guys, how are you?

How far is downtown Baltimore?

Where you going?

Harbor Place? We're going just downtown.

Go straight on this road here.

You're gonna have to go back over to Russell Street and cross over.

Okay. So what do you think?

Four or five miles? Something like that?

No, old man like me used to walk about 20 minutes from here.

Oh, okay, thanks. Sure.

( camera clicks )

( chattering )

( men talking )

Where's your car? Where are the cars?

Yeah. No, we're walking.

Two of these guys are combat vets

and they're coming home to this country.

I was with them out in Afghanistan as a journalist.

And they were-- You're the man.

--trying to get to know our country again.

Thanks for serving our country, man.

How do you think the country is doing right now?

To me, not that well, for the small man, anyway.

It ain't never been that great for the small man,

but like now it seem to be even worse.

I think right now, a lot of crime is up with people hungry.

Yeah. You know, you get hungry, you gonna take stuff.

It's that simple. It ain't hard to figure out.

( chuckles ) You know, you bring the jobs back.

I mean, come on, you know everybody getting fed, why take it? I got it.

You know, if you don't have it, people gonna cover means.

Gotta provide for the families, themselves, and you know.

It's just gonna be that way.

Man: Mr. Dave, we gotta go!

Gotta go to church, Mr. Dave! ( church bells ringing )

I haven't been to church since, Jesus, since...

My babysitter took me to church when I was about six.

Six years old? Something like that.

That's incredible.

( drums beating ) ( people singing )

♪ He's goin' to find out, He's goin' to find out ♪

♪ He's goin' to find out ♪

♪ Can't you see? ♪

All: ♪ Can't you see? ♪

♪ It's about time ♪

♪ It's about time ♪

♪ For He is the Lord! ♪

♪ Yeah! ♪ ( all cheering )

Woman: Hallelujah!

Pastor: God has a blessing... All: Amen.

...with her name on.

She ate, he ate, the child ate.

God was blessing her. All: Yes.

But after awhile, while they were being blessed,

her son, he dies.

And the young lady tries to figure out

what just happened.

Man: Yeah. "Did you set me up?

You mean that you would send a prophet to bless me,

to feed me, to take care of me and my son,

only to allow my son to die?!

What trick do you have? What is this?"

Many of you are looking and saying,

"We shouldn't question God." Man: No, sir.

When you're hurting, you ain't thinking about nothing like that.

( all calling out )

That's not-- though holy, pious all you might,

that you never question God.

But you started saying, "Why did you do this to me?"

As a pastor, I've had death interrupt my family...

Yeah. ...and I don't want to question Him

but I try to deal with, "Mmm, God, I don't understand.

I don't understand it.

I don't understand!"

Yeah, I'm a pastor, but I don't understand!

And God says, "It's not for you to understand.

Can you just trust me?" ( applause and cheers )

( piano playing )

( men arguing )

♪ There's a dirt floor ♪

♪ Underneath here ♪

♪ To receive us ♪

♪ When changes fail ♪

♪ May this shovel ♪

♪ Lose your trouble ♪

♪ Let them ♪ ( camera clicks )

♪ Fall away ♪

♪ Well, the mist shall ♪

♪ Be your blanket ♪

♪ While the moss shall ♪

♪ Ease your head ♪

♪ As the future ♪

♪ Is soon forgotten ♪

♪ As the dirt shall ♪

♪ Be your bed ♪

( train whistle blowing )

( crickets chirping )

What did you see? I slept through it. What did you see last night?

Roels: I saw a helicopter flying above us.

I saw it go up the track with the light

and, uh, then I heard a bunch of sirens.

And they get louder and louder and louder.

And then, uh,

the-- the helicopter came back along the tracks.

I was like, "We're fucked."

Well, it's not that reassuring

that we slipped through their safety net.

I mean, it missed us by probably 100 meters,

that light.

( train horn blaring )

Well, you guys wanna do a group hug... Cameraman: No.

...this morning? I'll tape it.

Come on. Come on. No, I'm good.

Come on, dude. Nah, come here.

We'll do one of those Arab...

No, no, no. We're doing this.

( Daisy whining )

( men laughing )

Cervera: I think I kept on going to work

with an obsession because I had some trauma

from my childhood with my father, you know.

( camera clicks )

My father deals with war.

He sells arms in a legal way,

but he sells war.

And since I was a kid, I was against that.

I remember I used to tell him, like,

"What are you doing?" But he thought I was stupid.

After we started "The Last Patrol",

I told my father maybe I go to Syria

because my addiction made me, um-- I said, "Go," you know?

And he told me, "Stop doing that bullshit job you have,

taking pictures of war."

And I say, "If I choose to do that,

you should respect me because what you do,

it's bullshit too, because you are selling guns."

But I realize that to go to war,

it's like a way of trying to show my father

that I can do something good in life, you know.

This looks grim.

That's too far to swim.

There's boats all the way down there.

It's just-- it's private property to get on them.

That house with eight pick-up trucks in front of it...

Yeah. ...that might be a good one for you two guys.

Just play the vet card. ( knocking on door )

We're just trying to get across the bay

and, uh, we were wondering if you knew how-- how to...

Man: You ain't getting across there. No? Why is that?

There's no way to get across.

Uh, you-- uh, boat wise?

Like if someone would take us over?

I don't have a boat in the water right now.

( train whistle blowing )

Maybe they have an idea of someone

that could give us a ride? Man: Okay, go on up.

I'm smart. Junger: You are smart.

Hey, is she okay, Sebastian?

As long as you don't have mud. You don't have mud, do you?

Junger: So, you're in the bee business.

How does that work? Very carefully.

( all laughing ) Very carefully!

Every time you pick up a magazine

or a book or something, hear a television,

they're saying that the bees are dying, right?

Which they are.

They just now found out the reason why they're dying.

We're gonna be the next species that dies behind them.

Do you know why? Tell me.

Pesticides.

What made you guys decide to do this?

We just-- we just wanted to see what would happen, you know.

I mean, what's the purpose of it?

Just to get to know America again

and to decompress a little bit from the war.

What do you think about America?

Are we in a good place right now or not?

We're headed for trouble.

Yeah? Big trouble.

You can see it coming, you know.

We're all in big trouble. Why is that?

We gotta get that president outta there, you know.

We definitely do.

I think if it keeps on going,

there's going to be a civil war, you know.

I really do. Somebody--

something-- something has got to give somewhere, you know.

Junger: We should probably keep on with our march.

We're hoping to try to get some kind person

to take us across that estuary in a boat.

You think that's at all possible?

Um...

Not really. If you know somebody, you know.

O'Byrne: Yo!

Cervera: Oh. Hey! Let's go hurry up!

Junger: Yup!

Hey, grab my bag!

Hey, we gotta rush if we're gonna get this.

He's gotta go to work.

( man talking )

O'Byrne: I appreciate it. Thank you.

If you didn't say military, man, I wouldn't be doing this.

Really.

Junger: The country seems pretty divided right now.

I hope it heals itself 'cause that's not--

It is very divided. Right?

Yeah. It's almost--

it's different as women and men are.

Two sides in America. It is. Yeah, yup.

I have a feeling that we lost our way, that what made us great...

What made us great?

Everybody wanting to work,

making-- all the money they get, they made through hard work,

not sitting there expecting the government to take care of them.

Yeah.

And I think there's a lot of that going on right now.

It'll get back there again.

What's the work you do?

I know you have to get to work today so--

It's construction, waterproof.

Waterproof foundations. Yeah.

Just go out there and spray asphalt.

Junger: Brendan, what's the thing you like most about women?

Um, they keep me in line, you know.

My wife keeps me in line.

See, you know, without a wife,

without-- without Liz, shit,

I'd be out here every day. ( laughs )

I would be a bum.

( Junger laughing )

You know, it just-- it kind of completes a person in a way.

Um, guys tend to wander.

And sometimes, uh, you shouldn't wander.

And I say that's what my wife does--

kind of like my compass, man.

So kind of the same with Brendan a little bit, you know.

Junger: Guillermo, what's the thing you like most about women?

( exhales )

Everything. ( laughing )

Of course, everything.

What-- everything? Yeah, everything.

But they're a little bit-- a little bit crazy.

That's the only thing makes me--

but, yeah, they-- I like everything.

Have women gotten upset with you in your life at all?

Yeah, many times. ( men laughing )

If I was an upset woman--

if I was really upset, what would you be doing right now?

I'd say-- I would say, like,

"Come on. Don't think about it. Relax." ( chuckles )

Junger: What do you think, Dave? How's it going today?

We've moved good. Yeah.

Um, no complaints today.

It's nice. I'm ready for night. I know.

Maybe move under dark a little.

Possibly. We'll see how guys feel.

Roels: Coming home for some soldiers is difficult

because when we're deployed, you know,

you're living next to your closest buddies.

You wake up in the morning and you brush your teeth

in the sink next to 'em and then you go eat breakfast

and then you go patrol.

There's a lot of unspoken communication amongst those groups.

There's a lot of understanding.

And then all of a sudden, boom, you're by yourself.

It's comforting to live in a group.

And when that's gone,

it can be a very difficult adjustment to make.

And they're expecting, when they get home,

everything is going to be great.

Everybody's gonna, you know,

love to see them. And that's partially true,

but if you had problems before,

all the war is going to do is put those problems off.

Most soldiers you see that have problems when they return

also had problems before they deployed.

( chattering )

Watch out, there's a dog in the road! Oh, God!

( car striking ) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Oh, damn it! Shit!

( dog howling )

Oh, God. O'Byrne: I can't do that, man.

Oh, God. I gotta go, man.

( dog howling ) Oh, fuck. Fuck.

( dogs howling )

Oh, man. Junger: You all right?

Fuck. I don't deal with death well, man.

I don't deal with that.

Like, that's not a good thing for me to see ever, like, ever.

I don't want to see it. And I-- and I don't know.

I don't know.

Fuck, man. I just...

Yeah, that was a harsh thing to see.

My brain doesn't work well... Yeah.

...to see those things coming.

( men chattering )

Junger: Well, I don't think the dog saw it, you know.

It was-- I mean, imagine how knocked out it was

when it got hit by the car.

It didn't sound like that.

Well, I mean, it was in shock.

There was howling and it died in a minute, you know.

Fuck! What are you-- I mean like--

Well, you did the right thing. You got out of there.

Yeah. You know.

Like a fucking girl, just took off running.

Yeah, that was good. That was good.

I just chased you to make sure you were all right.

You don't know, you don't care.

You just-- it's amazing. You just want your stick.

Completely oblivious. Aren't you?

You think if anybody should be really upset,

it should be you.

Roels: What lingers is the major question for tonight.

What? What's more messed up?

If it didn't bother you seeing the dog get hit or if it did?

Yeah.

Cervera: I think America is a really amazing country

in the way that you have a lot of freedom

for growing yourself,

for making business or do a family or whatever.

But it's a lot of sadness also in America.

It's a lot of problems.

And we-- in this trip, we have seen that.

We have seen a lot of people with problems

which are all over the world, but in America,

I think the people is so individual.

In other countries,

you just see people helping each other.

So people--

when they have a problem, they feel better

because the neighbor is helping.

In America, I'm sure that happens, but less.

And you can tell that in the faces of the people.

Something there that you can tell

is making them suffer.

Man: What you guys doing?

Junger: Just walking around the country to see what it looks like.

No kidding.

Yeah, we're walking-- we've walked from D.C.

Holy moly.

Yeah, we're sleeping outside and just meeting people like you.

Get outta here. Yeah.

Man, that's great. That's great.

We're trying to figure out

what the best thing about America is. What do you think?

What do you think is the best thing about this country?

That you're free. Freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech, man. Freedom of religion.

Yeah, it's free-- free country. ( laughs )

Best thing about America? Yeah.

Mm, I gotta Google it first, see.

( chuckles )

Um, best thing about America is...

No? You tell me.

What's the best thing about America?

I don't know. I'm still-- that's why we're walking.

We're trying to figure it out.

Ain't nothing good around here.

I don't know why y'all walking through here.

We heard Chester is a pretty tough town,

but people have been really friendly.

Yeah, they are nice.

You can find a couple of nice people if you look.

We found nothing but nice people so far.

It's only what you make it. That's all.

Yeah. It's only what you make it.

Man: Being that I am an American, I'm a Vietnam veteran,

I think the best thing about America

is that you do have a freedom of choice.

You have a choice. You understand what I'm saying?

Whether you agree with all the things that America stands for

or whether you don't,

which I don't agree with everything America stands for.

And-- but I don't disagree with everything that America represents.

But I think the best thing about America

is that you do have a choice.

Junger: What do you think of our president now?

I love Barack Obama.

I wish he was more forceful in trying to get his message across.

I wish he was more forceful

in trying to deal with the Republicans.

I wish he was more forceful, and I wish he would get mad sometimes.

I wish he would get angry.

I wish he would get angry sometimes.

Why do you think he doesn't?

I don't know.

Can I be frank? Yeah, please be.

I'm talking real frank.

Yeah, go for it, man. Nigga, fuck it.

You know what I'm talking about. It's going to Fucktown right here, man.

This Ballroom Avenue used to be a million-dollar fucking business

till the fucking niggers starts coming around here--

excuse me when I say it, I don't give a fuck.

You gonna keep it real? Keep it the fuck real.

Smoking that shit, you know what I'm talking about?

You know what i mean, fucking the whole joint up.

Out of everything in this neighborhood,

never been touched-- this garden.

It has never been touched.

Ain't no young boys coming here vandalizing. None of this.

You know why? Because we respect our block.

If any outsider come in this motherfucking neighborhood

with that dumb-ass shit, nigga, trust me, it's your ass.

Junger: Oh, shit. ( grunts )

Hey, Guillermo. What?

Time to get up.

You won't believe how awesome it is out here.

I would bring a piece of plastic, you know?

This is not-- very bad.

Are all the army products like this?

Like bad.

Junger: I think I'm gonna brush my teeth today just for church.

That's a good idea.

I haven't brushed my teeth since Wilmington.

Since Vietnam.

Since Vietnam. I haven't brushed my teeth since Vietnam.

( man laughing )

Junger: Oh, I have a fucking blister.

Oh, did you?

I had no idea that that could happen-- blisters like that.

You know, we were talking-- me and Brendan

how, like, really, truly fragile an infantryman is,

like a compass. If you broke it, you could be done.

A hemorrhoid. Prickly heat. Yeah.

And prickly heat is... Monkey butt?

Monkey butt. Monkey butt.

I mean you could really be made ineffective.

Yeah. Uh-huh. It-- it--

you might be there, but your mind's not gonna be in it.

No. You'll be hurting. I mean, you'll just be like...

Female pastor: Who are we really?

Are our souls shaped,

our face written in full by God

before we even draw our first breath?

Do we make ourselves

by the choices we ourselves make?

Or are we clay

that is merely molded

and pushed into shape?

A shape that are betters-- pupose for us.

The question will require us to reason our way

throughout the thicket of ideas.

Free will and determinism,

fate and destiny,

choice and election.

Who are we really?

Woman #2: I want to talk today about Psalm 1:39.

It's a poem in the Bible, and it tells us

that God knows us

even before we are born, right?

And even before our first picture, right?

So God knows you very well right now

and loves you and knows how many hairs are on your head

and knows what you're thinking, right?

And what you're going to do...

Junger: What's the best thing about America, in your opinion?

I think I have to say what,

you know, what I would have said in my childhood

and I've always believed-- opportunity.

O'Byrne: Yes, yup. Airborne infantry.

Pardon me? Airborne infantries.

Okay. So I jumped out of planes and stuff like that.

Yeah, it was-- but it was good. It was good.

I-- I-- I miss it.

Well, I would think that it would be very hard

to come back, for a lot of guys, to this country

where some people

don't even know there's a war going on.

Cervera: Difficult task.

Fall behind.

Junger: Are you good? Yeah.

So we have about four miles.

Nice easy day. Nice easy beginning.

( dog barking )

I wish Dave was with us. Cervera: Yeah, man.

It feels like, uh, almost like a mission without--

a company without their first sergeant, you know?

Yeah, I miss his weird wisdom about things.

Yeah, yeah. You know?

Like he had a really good way

of figuring out what we should do.

Yeah. You know? He really was smart in his way.

He was very smart about things.

Roels: I left "The Last Patrol" and went back to Afghanistan

because I missed it.

I missed soldiers

and little things

like the planning of an operation,

watching a squad leader maneuver his men.

Not being able to finish "The Last Patrol"

was quite hard.

You don't want to be the guy that takes a day off of a patrol

just in case something would happen that day.

But there's still plenty of fighting,

there's still plenty of bad guys.

And this is what I do to pay bills.

I have to chose one or the other,

and I gotta do priority one, family.

I think I'll always say I'm not going back,

but I don't think it's a reality.

We'll all go back at some point, I think.

Junger: There's a car up there along the tracks.

I'm just gonna make sure it's not a cop.

There's no lights on the-- on the roof anyway.

It's nice being on the wrong side of the law again.

( chuckles ) You know?

Yeah. Just slightly.

Yeah, it's a good feeling.

Why is it that getting away with something feels better

than not trying to get away with something?

Why-- why is that?

'Cause we need something in our lives to make us--

our blood go a little bit.

Man, I-- I was-- I was camping at West Virginia,

I was up on this ridge, and down below

at the bend in this river was a little campground.

There was no one there but some park rangers,

like, driving around in their trucks.

I was way-- I was maybe 1,000 feet up.

And, uh-- and I was looking at them with binoculars.

I was above them, and they didn't know I was there.

What is it about that that makes you want to attack them?

( laughing ) Cervera: You what?

You know what I mean? I just wanted to attack them.

It's a very primal thing, man. Totally primal.

It's like other men you don't know below you

and they don't know you're there.

"Kill."

O'Byrne: And they-- they could be a threat.

They could not be a threat.

But they definitely won't be a threat if you kill them.

Yeah. ( laughing )

O'Byrne: It's nice to come out here again.

It's like easy-- you know, sort of like combat.

It's, like, sort of a-- a bare essential existence.

And I-- I like that that sort of style of life.

You know, where you could just worry

about the very small things.

You know, I'm not worrying about drinking out here.

I'm not worrying about what my wife and I

are going to do with the rest of our lives.

I'm not worried about anything like that.

I'm just worried about just getting from here to Lancaster

and maybe to Harrisburg,

and after that, who knows, you know?

That's the only thing I'm caring about--

caring about right now.

So that's really, uh, peaceful in my head

when I get to do that.

Junger: I met Brendan when I was in Afghanistan

with American soldiers.

We ran a remote outpost called Restrepo.

And out there I knew him

as an incredibly effective soldier.

He was a team leader, incredibly focused.

And then he comes home to the United States

and he's a mess.

Drank way too much, very self-destructive.

But when we started doing "The Last Patrol,"

all of a sudden I would see the old Brendan

that I remembered from Afghanistan.

There's a lot of small miserable tasks to do

when you're living outside--

pumping water out of a creek, building a fire,

putting up the tarps. And after walking all day,

you don't want to do those things.

Brendan was always the guy who would jump up

and do what needed to be done.

Sometimes it was running up a hill

to see if there was a good place to sleep at the top of a hill.

Was there water up ahead?

Just so that not everyone would have to walk that distance,

he would run it and then come back.

And that's the Brendan that I remembered from Afghanistan

and that's what came out during the patrol.

He clearly, also himself, felt that he was at his best

when he was out here.

I remember one time we ended the trip a little early,

and he was incredibly upset about it

because he just didn't want to go home.

( gunshot )

( gunshot ) ( Daisy moaning )

Lay these down. He's fucking right there.

( Daisy barking ) Hey, there!

( Daisy barking ) ( man talking )

Huh? ( Daisy barking )

Junger: We heard-- we heard someone shooting. Was that you?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, just doing a little trapping.

What-- can I ask what that pole--

how that pole works?

Yeah. This is, uh--

if you get one in the trap, like-- An opossum.

--catch a cat-- Oh.

--a cat or anything like that,

then, uh-- Oh, wow, look at that.

you just noose it up. That way you can let them go.

I already let two cats go.

We've been asking people what's the best thing about America.

Well, I ain't got too much faith in the government,

but-- there's too many taxes.

But other than that, it's nice.

It really is. It's free. I mean, you're free so...

If you take this trail... Junger: Yeah.

...across there, you'll see a trail that cuts down to the railroad.

Yeah. Don't take that.

I got three traps sitting there

and I don't want the dog getting caught in it. Oh.

And this water-- we've been drinking this water.

Is it all right? The best.

( Daisy barking ) It's the best?

Yeah. You can drink it straight out of the creek, right?

You ain't, uh-- you ain't got sick yet, did you?

Nope. ( man laughing )

Junger: I ain't got sick. O'Byrne: That's good stuff.

You guys picked a bad time of the year, though, didn't you?

We're supposed to get snow tonight.

Are we getting snow? Yeah.

Oh, my God. Mmm.

Daisy.

O'Byrne: She's been licking my eyeball.

Oh, Daisy.

Do you see the snow?

Do-- do I see-- do I see the snow? Yeah.

Oh, Daisy, stop it! No!

( chuckles ) What's with the stupid jacket?

( laughing ) Who put that stupid jacket on you?

Oh.

You look like it's after the apocalypse.

"In a world without gasoline..." ( laughing )

"...without flowers

and without women,

four men and a dog journey northwards

or was it westwards."

It makes her look sort of bow-legged.

( laughing ) You know what I mean? She looks like an old man.

Yeah. ( laughing )

O'Byrne: Look how badass she looks when she's running back over.

Right. ( laughing )

Look at her. ( laughing )

( camera clicking )

Junger: My father was a physicist.

Cervera: A what? He's a physicist.

Your father?

He figured out how the world worked.

My father taught me that the world is understandable

in physical terms. It's not a big mystery.

It's understandable.

Some of it is a mystery, but they're working on it.

Didn't he tell you that the world is a piece of shit?

( chuckles ) No, that's the human part of it.

The physical world is...

doing fine.

He said if you can measure things and you can think critically,

you can understand the world.

So that's what I started doing.

And he was an atheist because he couldn't measure it--

he couldn't measure God

and he couldn't think critically about it,

so he didn't believe in God.

Junger: My father died right before "The Last Patrol" started,

a few weeks before we set out on our first walk.

I was holding his hand when he died.

He grew up in Europe

and he was very, very smart.

He lived completely in his head,

completely disconnected from his body.

And his body punished him by not doing very well.

I saw my father debilitated by arthritis and asthma

and all these physical ailments.

He had absolutely no capacity to take care of himself physically.

As a kid, I completely disavowed

any kind of dependency like that.

The answer that I came up with

was to make my life physically as hard as I possibly could.

My whole life was an attempt to show

that I could endure anything.

I could sleep outside in a blanket on a winter night

and not freeze to death.

I became a long-distance runner.

I could run all day and all night if I had to.

I didn't need food, I didn't need water.

I was completely invulnerable.

My ideal was that I would be able

to walk off into the woods with a knife in my back pocket

and survive in the woods without any help

for an indefinite amount of time

and then come back and I'd be okay.

And somehow if I was able to do that,

then I would feel safe and happy in my life.

Cervera: Sebastian, for me, is the lost of the group.

He's lost. Trying to find himself.

Trying to follow directions from Dave because you're lost.

We'll string the tarp up right here, slope that way.

Trying to follow directions from me in a way

when talking about woman because you're lost.

Like the lost kid of the group.

...from here to here...

The lost kid who is the oldest in the family,

who try to take care of the other kids.

For me, lost people--

I like lost people because I've been lost all my life.

Uh, uh, throwing TVs around,

like, full-blown panic attack

that I couldn't find my car...

Cervera: I quit drinking 17 years ago.

Junger: Do you think you'd be alive right now if you hadn't stopped?

No, no, no.

Probably I'd be dead 15 years ago.

I was very close to death. I was sleeping on the streets.

The police would wake me up, you know.

Sometimes stealing, sometimes selling drugs.

I'd probably be dead. For sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, I even tried to kill myself a couple of times, you know,

when I was having those problems.

You're crazy. I mean, it's a mental disease.

But you know what I've been asking people recently

just out of curiosity...

( engine rumbling ) O'Byrne: ATV.

What I've been asking people is

what's it mean to be a man.

What's that mean when people say, "Come on, be a man."

What-- what are they talking about?

What's that mean?

I think-- I think what-- what that's saying

is basically, to me, is-- is face your problems

and don't run from them, whether it sucks or not.

Yeah. What about you?

I think it would mean, uh, being less concerned

about what happens to you

and more concerned about what happens to people you care about.

You know in Aurora, Colorado?

There's a cinema, right?

This kid walked in there with a shotgun and a rifle,

killed 16 people, something like that.

And three young men died

'cause they stepped in front of their girlfriends

to protect them, and they got-- they got shot.

So you could say that's being a man.

Like that guy is thinking, "I'm less concerned

about what happens to me than what happens to her so I'm gonna stand there."

But if you say that, right-- right?

What about that woman in the school in Sandy Hook

who was found covering those children.

Yeah. Is that a man?

Well, you know what I think happens,

I think men protect women and women protect children.

Like in the theater, not one woman stepped in front of a man,

'cause that's not their job. But I bet there are women

who saved children in that theater.

You know what I'm saying?

I asked a friend of mine, a woman,

I said if you-- if there was a shooting

like in Aurora, anything dangerous,

anything, and you were with your boyfriend

and he stepped and got behind you,

what would happen in the relationship?

And she said, "I would break up with him immediately. Done."

O'Byrne: Some men can't go to combat.

Yeah.

So combat can't make you a man.

Cervera: I think what is really brave,

what is really tough in this world,

is to get the car every day at 7:00 in the morning,

go to the same work,

do what you have to do to feed your children...

Yeah. ...go back home, deal with that,

deal with your wife, make them happy...

Yeah. ...and try to be yourself happy.

That's for me... Yeah.

...the toughest thing to do for anyone, you know?

Everything's fucking tough. Life is tough, you know?

No matter if you're-- if you're getting shot at

or-- or getting in an argument with your wife every day, you know?

Getting shot at, getting yelled at. Yeah.

Which is harder?

Learning that role that you have to provide society--

Cervera: Now, now. Listen, listen, listen, listen.

Listen, listen, listen.

A man is knowing the sense of what your role in society is

and then fucking doing it.

O'Byrne: When I got out of the military,

my dad lived in an apartment above me.

And I was really lost and I didn't know what to do.

I was depressed, I couldn't get a job,

I wasn't showering, I wasn't eating.

I was really a terrible mess.

Every night I would go up and talk to him.

And he never gave opinions, he never gave advice.

He never said, "Hey, this is what you should think."

As drunk as I was, he just let me tell my story.

He just let me get this terribleness out of my heart.

And my dad,

whatever may happened when I was a kid,

he saved my life when I was 24,

just letting me get it out.

He saved my life and then he died.

A lot of people ask me, "How could you still love your father

after him shooting you?"

But he was just doing the best he could.

He sucked. He sucked at being a father.

But it doesn't take away from him as a human being.

My dad really fucked me over in life.

I'm an alcoholic.

I'm, uh, I'm all these different things because of that.

Come on, Daisy. But I'm also alive.

All right, here it goes.

Junger: What are we doing? Top of the hill.

You fuck-- you got a fucking head start on me!

Ah! I'm carrying more than you, motherfucker!

( laughs ) Oh, you're carrying more?

I'm carrying more, asshole. Fuck you.

I'm twice your age.

Junger: You guys up for a good walk today?

You guys up for walking twice what we did yesterday?

Like, when we walk a lot, we walked like 20,

20-something, right? Yeah.

I'm having another granola bar.

I really wish I had a pack of cigarettes.

I'm just gonna confess that.

O'Byrne: I wish I had a drink.

Junger: I can't promise in the next town

I'm not getting a pack of cigarettes.

I can promise you I'm not gonna drink.

Not drinking the booze there.

Want some? Want some?

I got you.

I got you. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Okay.

Junger: Do you think this long walk that we've been doing--

do you think it's helped at all make the transition

from combat reporter to whatever you would call yourself now?

I'm here because I know you because of Tim.

( weapons firing ) Man: Going down 50 meters!

And I think about it.

I think, you know, why I'm here and this happen,

and what can I do?

You know, like, you know it's in your--

it's in your mind. You know, it's--

otherwise, you will go--

keep on going and don't remind, just being back.

Here, it makes you face your problem,

for me, at least, yeah.

( train horn blaring )

( train horn blaring )

Cervera: I've seen a lot of changes of each of us

doing this trip. And I think it's great.

I'm feeling a little weak this time.

Junger: Do you want me to take your pack for awhile?

It has been a great opportunity for me

to organize my brain, which was kind of messed up.

Well, listen, let me take your pack for a bit

and then you'll feel better and we'll--

Yeah, but it's heavy to carry two.

I've done it before.

I'll just give you a break for an hour.

Okay. All right. And drink some water.

( burps ) Kill it.

I did, this Christmas, I told with my father,

I just made him sit in front of me

and just tell him what I feel, you know, in a good way.

Not angry, just expressing my feelings.

Now I feel better with him.

And that happened from "The Last Patrol."

And I stopped going to work.

I thought go to work was the only way

to get high as a photographer

with this kind of an ego thing, you know.

It's an addiction to yourself.

Now I realize there are a lot of ways to tell stories

with your camera in an amazing way, not in a war.

So I decide to cover other things and I'm very happy.

( chuckles )

Man: Look at that.

O'Byrne: That's cool, man.

( camera clicks )

( clicking )

Junger: When I was young,

war seemed like the answer to a question I didn't dare ask.

I spent 20 years covering wars.

I was almost killed a few times

and I know any number of people who are shot and wounded

and a couple who were killed.

And I finally stopped going to war.

And I realize my biggest challenge now

is to feel like a worthy person

without that steroid injection of good feeling

that comes from doing something dangerous

and somewhat exceptional.

Maybe that really is peacefulness.

Maybe that really is maturity.

Maybe that really is living a deep life.

Cervera: Nice to be here this early in the morning.

What's that? It's nice to be here.

Yeah.

Junger: Yeah, this wasn't a bad camp site after all.

Yeah, not bad.

You know, there's a whole cookbook for recipes

you could cook in tin foil in your engine

while you're driving. Get the fuck out.

No, I'm serious. What?

Yeah, you could wrap shit in tin foil,

put it in your engine, it'll cook it.

That's so awesome. ( laughing )

There's a whole-- there's a cookbook for it.

Are you serious? Yeah.

And you found this? Cooking for your car--

cooking with your car engine. I'm serious.

So if you're stuck somewhere you don't have a stove,

you just turn on the engine for awhile.

You can bake bread, you can cook eggs.

That's fucking hilarious.

Bacon right over the, uh, engine block.

Just sizzle it right on the engine block.

That's so stupid. ( laughing )

Jesus Christ.

Think of the guy who thought that up.

What-- America!

Yeah. What was that guy's life like?

I can tell you.

I can tell you a lot about him.

We met a few of them along the way here.

You think his wife was tired of his fucking ideas by the end?

( chuckles ) Yeah.

All right, should we get packed up?

No, no.

As much as I hate to leave our little place in paradise.

( laughing ) Yeah.

Cervera: We just passed by paradise.

We just-- we-- that's right.

Man: What are you doing? I was just-- fuck off.

I was just getting changed. I'm sorry.

Quit holding your breath.

This is it, America. Sexy as it gets.

Just balding, hairy,

overweight, carpel tunnel,

alcoholism, PTSD.

( Daisy barking ) America, do you want me or not?

( laughing ) Cervera: I want you. I want you.

( laughing )

That's all we got.

That's all I got to give.

That's it. That's it.

So, gentlemen, we're at the end of another trip.

We did almost 50 miles.

And we'll be back here in a couple of months.

Yeah. It'll be hot.

The trees will be full of leaves. It'll be real easy to hide.

We've got a couple hours walking

and then we're in Lewiston and then we're done.

All right.

( calling out )

Junger: Never thought you'd finish a trip in Lewiston, did you?

O'Byrne: I never suspected in my life that I was gonna be walking...

Junger: We made one final trip.

I decided to finish at Jumonville Glen in Pennsylvania

where George Washington had his first taste of combat,

where he first heard bullets whistle passed his head.

But we set out during a July heat wave

and within a few days, our little group started to fall apart.

It was 100° in the shade

and we were walking along an abandoned freight line

under the full force of the summer sun.

First, Daisy collapsed and then Guillermo gave up

and finally Rudy, our loyal cameraman,

got heat stroke and had to stop.

On our last day, it was just Brendan and me.

Dusk found us in Connellsville on the banks of the Youghiogheny River,

and I told Brendan my feet were too blistered to go any farther.

He offered to take some weight out of my pack,

but I shook my head and said the trip was over.

Jumonville didn't matter, I realized.

Like most battlefields,

it was just another spot on the map,

just another piece of ground where blood had been spilled

and not much else had changed.

The thing about combat is that you finally understand,

you truly get, how insignificant you are,

how random everything is.

But you also get something incredibly valuable in return.

You get to understand how deeply good it is to be alive.

( guitar strumming )

♪ Whoo! ♪

♪ Whoo! ♪

♪ Well, if I get to heaven before you do ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ I'll be watching and waiting, Mother dear, for you ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ Father, when the train, Father, when the train ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ Mother, when the train, Mother, when the train comes along ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ If my eyes see the glory before yours do ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ I'll be there watching, Father, for you ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ Father, when the train, Father, when the train ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ Father, when the train, Father, when the train comes along ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ When the train, oh, when the train ♪

♪ I will meet you at the station when the train comes along... ♪

Man: Guillermo, can I hear your American accent again?

( croaking accent ) Warm and dry. ( laughing )

( American accent ) ♪ In a cavern, in a canyon ♪

♪ Excavating for a mine ♪

♪ Dwelt a miner '49er ♪

♪ And his daughter, Clementine. ♪

( laughing )

♪ When my train, when my train ♪

♪ Meet me at the station when my train comes along ♪

♪ When my train, sister, when my train comes along ♪

♪ Will you meet me at the station when my train comes along? ♪

♪ When the train, when the train ♪

♪ Meet me at the station when my train comes along ♪

♪ When the train, when the train comes along ♪

♪ I'll meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ I'll meet you at the station when the train comes along ♪

♪ I'll meet you at the station when the train ♪

♪ Comes along. ♪