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To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Final Thoughts & Acknowledgements)
In the final episode O'Neil thanked U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Defense and Colorado Springs Police Department. He also thanked former Lockheed Martin employee Steve Griffin, former USA Boxing official Dickie Wood, former football coach Carl Freyermuth, baseball coach Dwayne Follette, his parents and his brother. Wood was Oleg Maskaev's co-trainer from 2006 to 2008. During that time period Maskaev was WBC heavyweight world champion. O'Neil re-emphasized that he killed in self defense and that the Iraq War was justified. The Iraq War started in 2003 and ended in 2011. Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006. O'Neil believes that the terrorist that he killed was sponsored by Saddam Hussein and Iraq. He was a physical education student of Carl Freyermuth for four years at Plymouth (MA.) North High School from 1990-1994. Freyermuth won the Easten Massachusetts high school football state championship twice as a head coach in 1984 and 1989.
O'Neil's incident with the terrorist is recorded in multiple museums across New England, including Maine Military Museum, Fort Taber Fort Rodman Military Museum, and Cape Cod Military Museum. His incident is the only cleared kill of a domestic terrorist in connection to Operation Southern Watch. The results of O'Neil's boxing matches were reported by journalist and writer John J. Raspanti in 2018. Raspanti wrote the article "You Only Live Once. Just Ask Matthew O'Neil" for the company Maxboxing. Raspanti co-authored the 2016 hardcover book Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy. The book Everipedia Boxing Archives has the results of O'Neil's boxing matches. That book is in the library of The International Boxing Hall Of Fame.
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