00:00He fought to stay alive through the worst that the North Koreans could put him through in order to return to the family and community he loves.
00:22I would like to highlight this morning the bittersweet feeling that my family has.
00:27Relief that Otto is now home in the arms of those who love him.
00:33And anger that he was so brutally treated for so long.
00:38We went for 15 months without a word from or about Otto.
00:44It was only a week ago that we were informed that the North Korean government now claims he was in a coma for almost all of that time.
00:52Even if you believe their explanation of botulism and a sleeping pill causing the coma, and we don't,
01:02there is no excuse for any civilized nation to have kept his conditions secret and denied him top-notch medical care for so long.
01:12Obviously Otto's an amazing kid.
01:14What he endured, the brutality and the terror that he went through, and he made it back to the United States.
01:24And the performance he did.
01:26But that doesn't really speak to who Otto really is.
01:31Otto is a sweet, loving, kind person.
01:35And that's what we loved about him, and that's what his teachers loved about him.
01:40Obviously Otto was brilliant.
01:42He was never in a fight.
01:44He was never in a fight.
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