The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead decided to go public after comforting the families of WTC terror victims at the 9/11 Museum in lower Manhattan, a new report says.
Robert O’Neill spoke to the families while visiting the museum in September to donate the shirt he wore during the nighttime raid on the terror leader’s lair in Pakistan in May 2011.
“The families told me it helped bring them some closure,” O’Neill told The Washington Post.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who set up the talk with 9/11 victims, said the meeting was dramatic.
“We came in and had the quiet ceremony and it meant a lot,” Maloney told Business Insider. “People were in tears and the room was not that big.”
When asked about the heroic raid on bin Laden’s compound, O’Neill said, “I didn’t think I would survive.”