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  • Family of Soldier Slain in Bowe Bergdahl Search Blasts Prisoner Swap

    06/02/2014 3:33:03 PM PDT · by kristinn · 30 replies
    NBC News ^ | Monday, June 2, 2014 | Tracy Connor, Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski
    The deal that got Bowe Bergdahl released in exchange for five high-ranking Taliban detainees doesn't sit right with the family of an Army lieutenant killed in an ambush while searching for the missing sergeant. "He was killed while looking for this deserter," said Andy Andrews, father of 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews, who died in eastern Afghanistan in September 2009. "If this guy [Bergdahl] had not gone off post, our son would not have been killed." The Defense Department has never said Bergdahl was away without leave and has pointedly described him as a "prisoner of war." The Andrews family did...
  • Gold Star Mom: 'This guy was worth my son's life?' (Bowe Bergdahl)

    06/02/2014 3:10:08 PM PDT · by kristinn · 50 replies
    The Army Times | Monday, June 2, 2014
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  • 'A cover up just like Benghazi': Outraged parents of officer who died hunting for 'deserter' ...

    06/02/2014 11:34:08 AM PDT · by Uncle Chip · 28 replies
    The Daily Mail Online ^ | June 2, 2014 | Daniel Bates
    The furious parents of an officer who they claim was killed while searching for freed Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl today said that they have been lied to as part of a ‘cover up just like Benghazi’. The mother and father of Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews are angry that they have been told different stories about how their son died. First his commanders said that their son was blown up while hunting a Taliban commander - but only now that Bergdahl has been freed after five years in captivity are they learning the truth. Lt Andrews’ parents told MailOnline that their...