WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.540 --> 00:00:04.593 The immediate reaction was, you know, the reality sunk in. 2 00:00:10.250 --> 00:00:11.913 20 years is a long time. 3 00:00:20.950 --> 00:00:24.223 But there, you know at least there was the hope that, 4 00:00:31.370 --> 00:00:35.610 if he had to serve the entire sentence, 5 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:40.610 that he could have a life when he came out. 6 00:00:44.100 --> 00:00:49.100 And we also hope that over time that perhaps you know, 7 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:53.490 the government and the public would 8 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.680 pull back some and maybe review 9 00:01:03.230 --> 00:01:05.170 the situation and the circumstances 10 00:01:05.170 --> 00:01:06.593 and be more reasonable. 11 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:11.800 And John's never asked for pardon. 12 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:15.790 John's honest, honest, honest, honest to a fault, 13 00:01:15.790 --> 00:01:17.920 if you can be honest to fault. 14 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.573 And he's never denied, you know, what he did. 15 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:28.090 So he wasn't asking for a pardon, 16 00:01:28.090 --> 00:01:30.860 but he would ask for his sentence to be commuted. 17 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:33.410 And, you know, up until this time it's been denied. 18 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:42.250 But as time has gone on, and I don't see a lot 19 00:01:42.250 --> 00:01:47.083 of progress really in there's been some, 20 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.370 but not enough in our assessment of those early years 21 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:58.243 and particularly of that time, 22 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:04.240 and especially in light of what continues 23 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:06.963 to go on in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 24 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:17.480 that my concern now is that, you know, 25 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:23.110 what kind of life is he going to have 26 00:02:23.110 --> 00:02:25.323 when he comes out? Because, 27 00:02:31.126 --> 00:02:33.490 you know I don't know how safe he's going to be. 28 00:02:33.490 --> 00:02:35.940 I mean, you want your kids to be safe at any age, 29 00:02:38.980 --> 00:02:43.980 anybody you love. But they've, 30 00:02:59.730 --> 00:03:03.510 again they've created like this mythology about my son, 31 00:03:03.510 --> 00:03:06.893 You know as to who he is, what he's capable of, 32 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.960 and I just, you know, 33 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.710 I that's my fear, is that he will never be able 34 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:21.710 to have a life here, where he can return to a community, 35 00:03:23.739 --> 00:03:26.870 whether it's California, or anywhere else, 36 00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:28.863 wherever they release him, 37 00:03:31.070 --> 00:03:33.240 that he would be able to find a job that people 38 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.153 are gonna you know, welcome him.