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seveneyes

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5. The 6 U.S. Soldiers Who Died Searching For Bowe Bergdahl
Mon Jun 2, 2014, 02:23 PM
Jun 2014
http://time.com/2809352/bowe-bergdahl-deserter-army-taliban/

Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was freed by the Taliban over the weekend after they held him for nearly five years, in exchange for five Taliban leaders, who will spend a year cooling their heels in Qatar. You might have heard about it on the news.

Chances are you haven’t heard of the six soldiers who died hunting for him after he went missing, according to military officials. Now that Bergdahl has been sprung—in exchange for five senior Taliban officials, who had been imprisoned at Guantanamo—soldiers who served with Bergdahl are grumbling that he deserted and shouldn’t be hailed as a hero, especially given the resulting cost in American lives.

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