Back to the routine: Six weeks after being released from five years in Taliban captivity, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to return to life as a regular Army soldier as early as Monday, Defense Department officials said late Sunday. Sergeant Bergdahl has finished undergoing therapy and counseling at an Army hospital in San Antonio, and …
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West Virginia is one of the states in the nation that has the most veterans per capita. In large part it is a deeply ingrained patriotism- everyone you know has someone who served in the military family, and it is something that is considered just part of what we do. In my small town of …
What Floats? Very Small Rocks! Cider! Baked Gravy!
Poor guy has no clue the Graeme Frost/Scott Beauchamp/Sherrod treatment he is about to get: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told medical officials that his captors locked him in a metal cage in total darkness for weeks at a time as punishment for trying to escape, and while military doctors say he now is physically able …
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Early Morning Open Thread: More Facets
(Jeff Danziger’s website) . Elliot Ackerman, in The New Republic: … I served in the Marines, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and later, in special operations in Afghanistan’s rugged Paktika Province, for a good part of 2010 and 2011, working out of a remote firebase a few kilometers from the Pakistani border. At night my …
Why Does California Send This Woman to the Senate?
Good grief, if her husband’s financial issues and general hawkishness were not enough, it’s stuff like this that drives me insane: The decision that brought about Sgt. Bergdahl’s freedom on Saturday continues to draw criticism. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that Congress should have been consulted before …
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Open Thread: Orwell Wept
Orwell on the Half Shell: RW on Bergdahl proves you don't need a totalitarian state to create a totalitarian mindset http://t.co/IDGTrWKx1k — billmon (@billmon1) June 4, 2014 Dave Weigel has the backstory: The undisputed winner of Twitter today is Matt Binder, a producer at Majority FM who has spend untold minutes/hours digging up tweets from conservatives …
Profiles in Supporting Our Troops
@Any_Everyman @theonlyadult I deleted that Tweet bc I'm not sure how that was tweeted by me. Bergdahl was NOT a POW. He deserted. traitor — KimInNC (@kimpar_NC) June 4, 2014 In other Bergdahl news: The hometown of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has canceled a rally planned for later this month celebrating his release from …