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Brent Huff bu y going across the road to get some civilian. He's actually, that' on of the thing that kind of bugs him now because it was one of those bloody, I don't know, it wa me ed up in some way. But this is also the point where we were looking down the treet where Moss, I guess, had got in a firefight and these civilians were trying to run across the road. Someone fired a warning shot and I thought that was cool; that made sense (laughs). Then at some point we pulled back. Some other Humvees came through and actually gave us some MREs and stuff. We ammo'd up and got water. Then we decided to set up a defense for the night. So we kicked down, we got into the building, busted down some doors, got up onto the roof and set up a defense, set up a watch. Most everyone wanted to pass out. I was so excited still, it was just (laughs) I was high. It was an adventure. I kind of like that stuff. I stayed up most of the night. I don't remember going to sleep, actually. I ate a whole lot of food. Anyway, I was actually disappointed with one of the people in the platoon. It was one of the moments that I kind of lost respect for someone because someone else was on watch and I went to go get him because he was the next person. He just gave me the [unclear] and went back to sleep, just stuff like that. In a rough situation I felt like someone didn't come through and didn't do what they needed to do for someone else. I tend to be kind of judgmental on that because that's one of those things I always feel really honor-bound. I knew [ unclear] it's like that same feeling; it's like you have to. We're all tired. We were watching that mosque all night because for some reason we figured they were going to shoot a RPG out of this mosque. There were some shots fired down the road. There was a car alarm going off, something like that. Maybe it was just a blinker. 36