This must have been a fascinating event to attend.

Stephanie Butzer of the High Point Enterprise reported.

The man who killed bin Laden

After months of training on targets with images of Osama bin Laden’s face, Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill was finally face to face with the man responsible for 9/11.

A second later, bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, was facedown on the floor. Dead.

O’Neill, who reportedly fired those fatal shots, was a leader of SEAL Team Six, the top-notch U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group that stormed the Pakistani home where the terror leader had been hiding. After a brief but action-filled 15 minutes in the home, the team emerged with bin Laden in a body bag. No Americans were injured.

On Friday, O’Neill visited High Point University to speak about his background in the Navy and his combat missions.

Before the presentation, he spoke about what it was like to be a part of the group that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist.

“It was an honor to be a part of that team,” he said. “To be honest, it was really cool.”

Before leaving for Afghanistan, where the helicopters would then fly into Pakistan, O’Neill wrote letters to his children and wife, explaining the importance of what he was doing and why he would die with the people he was supposed to die with. He and the rest of his team were almost certain the mission was a one-way ticket for them.

According to “The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden,” the first non-anonymous interview with O’Neill that FOX News aired on Veteran’s Day of 2014, he shredded those letters as soon as the mission was over.

“It was sad knowing that I would probably not see my family again, but it was worth it because — it might sound morbid — but we’re all going to die eventually, and this is one way to do it,” he said. “Because we’re going to kill him.”