{"id":36088,"date":"2013-06-07T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36088"},"modified":"2013-06-07T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T19:31:31","slug":"an-udate-on-sgt-bowe-berghdal-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36088","title":{"rendered":"An Udate on SGT Bowe Berghdal, POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently SGT Bergdahl is indeed still alive.\u00a0 His family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/06\/07\/idaho-family-says-it-received-letter-from-pow\/\">received a letter recently through Red Cross channels<\/a> indicating that he\u2019s still alive and is \u201cdoing as well as can be expected\u201d in captivity.\u00a0 Details in the letter apparently convinced SGT Berghdal\u2019s family that the letter is genuine.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear where or by precisely whom SGT Bergdahl is being held captive.\u00a0 He was at one point alleged to be being held captive by the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based group declared by the US government to be a terrorist organization.\u00a0 However, that group\u2019s leadership has stated publicly that they do not hold SGT Berghdal, and that he is being held by others.<\/p>\n<p>SGT Bergdahl has been a POW for nearly 4 years.\u00a0 Regardless of the circumstances of his capture, I can only hope we can secure his freedom soon.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone reading this article wants to disparage SGT Berghdal or debate whether or not he deserves to be rescued \u2013 how about you do us all a favor and just grab a big steaming mug of STFU instead.\u00a0 The time and place to debate the actions leading to his being taken prisoner is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after<\/span> SGT Bergdahl is repatriated, not while he\u2019s still in captivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently SGT Bergdahl is indeed still alive.\u00a0 His family received a letter recently through Red Cross &hellip; <a title=\"An Udate on SGT Bowe Berghdal, POW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36088\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Udate on SGT Bowe Berghdal, POW<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}