Bowe Bergdahl: How did this happen?
This blog is very difficult for me to write.
Each time I started writing it, I ended up stopping and telling myself "Ralph, what are you doing? This is a site mostly geared toward real estate, not world news coverage"
Bowe Bergdahl is an American serviceman who was assigned in Afghanistan. He was taken by eight armed Taliban members. He is the only known American soldier being held by the Taliban.
I read this article online about him which shows a still shot from a video showing him with his captors looking the way he does.
But I saw this picture, and I could not stop staring at it. At this young man, and the look of hopelessness and despair on his face.
And what sickens me more is this person to his right appears to be laughing while this young man is obviously going through torment.
I just kept thinking "How did this young man get put in this position? How did we subject him to be put in this position? What did I do wrong as an American to have this young man subject to this?
And yet at the same time, I keep thinking "What did I do, what did we do to make these Taliban people hate us so much?"
I keep thinking "What did I do as an American to make this young man a victim of hate and war?"
I'm sitting at home in the comfort of my home while this young man is in some God foresaken place with people who obviously are abusing and torturing him. What's wrong with this picture?
And it's just eating away at me. What can I do to help him?
I know that I'm a highly resourceful man, probably more resourceful than most people know.
And yet I don't know what to do to help him....................
(I chose not to put my blog signature headshot with links because I just can't use this subject matter that just sickens me for advertising purposes)
Just wanted everyone to see this picture.
How does it make you feel?
