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elleng

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Sun Jun 1, 2014, 12:38 PM Jun 2014

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Flight to freedom

It was another day in nearly five years of captivity for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and he didn't know what the 18 Taliban fighters had in store for him Saturday.

There, in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, the heavily armed fighters turned Bergdahl over to U.S. military commandos.

The soldier's plight had come to an end.

Within minutes he was airborne. The helicopter's rotors whooped so loudly that Bergdahl couldn't communicate clearly with the men on board.

So he grabbed a paper plate and wrote three characters: "SF?"

The men understood: Special Forces?

The U.S. commandos didn't bother to write back
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"Yes!" shouted at least one over the roar of the flight. "We've been looking for you for a long time!"

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/31/world/meast/afghanistan-bergdahl-aboard-helicopter/

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