This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes. Do you have to change certain things to make it work? The book is called ’13 Hours’; the movie is two hours long. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the Gremlin Special’s passengers and crew. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
There is an interesting parallel between the ‘Argo’ story and ’13 Hours’ in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy. Mitchell Zuckoff Read Quote
