Image courtesy: Bergdahl familyThe Unknown Soldiers has been following the difficult plight of the Bergdahl family, which has been anxiously waiting for word on Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl since his abduction by terrorists in June 2009 in Afghanistan. This week, the Taliban reached a new low, by parading the soldier in front of cameras for another despicable propaganda video.
This blog will never give a forum to terrorists, so the video footage will not be embedded here. However, Reuters reported that Pfc. Bergdahl was forced to plead for his safety and recite an enemy script. The Pentagon immediately condemned the tape, in a statement released by Rear Admiral Gregory Smith.
"The continuing use of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl as a means of propaganda is a deplorable act and only fuels our efforts to find him and bring him home.
The insurgents who hold Bowe are obviously using him as a means to ultimately cause pain to his family and friends. It continues to reflect the cruel tactics designed to deceive the Afghan people and the international community of their true intentions. We will continue our search for Bowe as well as our efforts to ensure the security of the Afghan people and our coalition partner."
There is no compromise with the Taliban, which harbored Osama bin Laden before and after he ordered the terrorist attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. As the extremist group continues to abduct troops and contractors, murder civilians, and use innocent children as human shields, our resolve to defeat them will only grow stronger. We can only pray that the U.S. military is able to free Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl as soon as possible, so he can return to the arms of his loving family in Idaho.
I'm from the Cincinnati area, where Matt Maupin's parents live. When he was first taken, I lived only a couple of miles from their house and my son went to the elementary school that was taken over by the media covering the event (it happened over spring break, so the school parking lot was empty for a week). Many years of hope followed, and eventually his remains were returned to us for burial.
ReplyDeleteMy hopes and prayers go out to the Bergdahl family- we don't need another one to be returned as "remains"...we want him back whole, walking, and talking.
Time in captivity as of 30 December 2011:
ReplyDelete(2 years & 6 months) = (130 weeks & 4 days) = (914 days) This young soldier needs to come home NOW. More Americans should know his story.
~ Until they All come home.
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