Gold Star Mother Asks: This Guy Bergdahl Was Worth My Son’s Life?

by Duane Lester | June 5, 2014 7:15 pm

Good question:

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“It gets really hurtful when I think, this guy was worth my son’s life? My son who was patriotic? Who was a true soldier? Who defended his country with his life?” Andrews told Army Times via phone on Monday. “That guy was worth that? I don’t think so.”

Andrews also was upset to hear the U.S. government agreed to release five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl’s freedom.

“I bet you anything there were soldiers killed or wounded capturing those five guys,” she said. “So what does that do for their sacrifice? They sacrificed for nothing, because they turned right around and let them go.”

Bergdahl disappeared June 30, 2009, from a base in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan.

He and Darryn Andrews were deployed with 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.

Soldiers who say they served with Bergdahl have since spoken out on social media and in news reports that the then-Pfc. abandoned his post, wandering away from the combat outpost on his own. Many expressed anger that soldiers were killed while searching for Bergdahl.

Darryn Andrews was one of those men.

Read the rest.[2]

As Jim Hoft notes[3], Andrews was one of six who died looking for Bergdahl.

See also: : Video: Troops Respond With Silence When SecDef Hagel Announces Bergdahl’s Release

Endnotes:
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  2. Read the rest.: http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20140602/NEWS/306020055/Gold-Star-mom-guy-worth-my-son-s-life-
  3. Jim Hoft notes: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/gold-star-mother-this-guy-bergdahl-was-worth-my-sons-life/

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