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...member of the team did survive. Though the military has not released the name of the SEAL (the U.S. military seldom gives out the names of its special-operations personnel), TIME pieced together his story on the basis of briefings with U.S. military officials in Afghanistan plus an exclusive account of how Gulab, an Afghan herdsman, rescued the wounded commando. What emerges is the tale of a courageous U.S. fighter facing impossible odds in unfamiliar terrain, stalked by the enemy and stripped of everything but his gun and his will to survive. But it is also a story of mercy...
According to accounts provided to U.S. commanders by the surviving Navy SEAL, the commando team had come under fierce attack from a large group of Taliban fighters, who pounded their location with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and a steady hail of small-arms fire. The clatter of the approaching Chinook may or may not have been audible to the SEALs, but the Taliban surely heard it. A second band of fighters turned and took a bead on the chopper, probably with a rocket- propelled grenade, and in what a U.S. official calls "a pretty lucky shot," knocked...
...shot. At one point he blacked out, possibly from a mortar round landing close by. When he regained consciousness, two of his teammates--Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz, 25, and Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29--were dead, and a third had vanished in the darkness and fog. The surviving SEAL dragged himself at least another mile up into the mountains. It was there he was found four days later by Gulab the shepherd...
...another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
...whether or not they knew his name, moviegoers saw Ingmar Bergman films. His influence was everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...