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To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense (Acknowledgements)

To Kill A Terrorist In Self Defense: The Matthew E. O'Neil Story

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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. 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. Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was executed by firing squad on December 30, 2006. O'Neil believes that the terrorist that he killed in Colorado Springs, Colorado was sponsored by Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Dickie Wood was the co-trainer of WBC heavyweight world boxing champion Oleg Maskaev from 2006 to 2008. O'Neil was a physical education student of Carl Freyermuth for four years at Plymouth North High School from 1990 to 1994. Freyermuth won the Eastern Massachusetts high school football state championship twice as a head coach in 1984 and 1989. Follette has coached Plymouth North High School's varsity baseball for over thirty years.

O'Neil's incident with the terrorist is in many museums across New England, including Maine Military Museum and Learning Center, 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. Everipedia Boxing Archives is also located in the Moise Memorial Library (NM.) and Nevada Library Cooperative.