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(268,998 posts)(circumstances of his leaving base)!!
This is what happens at the end of wars.
You make sure you get your folks back.
Fugg 'em up Obama.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)"...killed in a mission surrounding the search for Bergdhal.." Not killed while searching for...
Father of dead soldier said he couldn't help but feel that his son might still be alive had Bergdhal not left. Still no hard facts about whether these dead soldiers deaths were an actual result of either looking for Bergdhal or because he left. These men were on a battlefield in the heat of battle. I hate that they had to die but we will not know what actually happened and what these soldiers were doing or had done in the heat of battle. No doubt they were angry about Bergdhal leaving them, maybe because he criticized their behavior. We will never really know. If anyone is ever close enough to a person returning home from battle you will learn, as I have, that a lot goes on that we would never approve of and in some cases our own soldiers kill a fellow soldier. WAR IS HELL.
malaise
(268,998 posts)PTSD.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)reveal about what was going on over there than they want to hear about. Remember how people had questions about McCain's loyalty as a prisoner of war...there were a lot of questions about what he did to survive. And I don't fault him or any other soldier for doing what they do as a result of sadistic war.
malaise
(268,998 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Kids shouldn't be sent off to war, simple as that. IMO
At 21 years old, I was still a kid. Thats how old I was when I arrived in-country Vietnam
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)to see the family of those "killed in a mission surrounding the search for Bergdhal" (if that is indeed the fact) trashing Bergdahl. One might think they would have a greater understanding of what a soldier goes through (such as reportedly seeing children run over) and what mental health can do to a person, to a soldier.