“I knew that bin Laden was about 6-foot-4. I saw some young SEALS standing neaby and I said: ‘Hey son, how tall are you?’ He said, ‘Sir, I’m 6′ 2.’ I say, ‘I need you to lie down here.’ He immediately understood what I was trying to do. The remains were a couple of inches longer.” … “The president at the moment quipped to Bill McRaven, You just blew up a $65 million helicopter and you don’t have enough money to buy a tape measure?'” A decade after the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, Garrett M. Graff collects an amazing oral history of how the plan unfolded. “I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This.”