Jani Bergdahl, whose son Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was just released as a prisoner of war from the Taliban, read a letter to him at a press conference on Sunday.
Bergdahl’s parents have not yet communicated directly with him, but sent him their love through a statement to the media.
“We’ve been working very very hard for your release this last five years,” Jani Bergdahl read from the letter to her son, “never losing hope in you or for you.”
Both Bergdahl’s parents stressed that their son would need to go through a long recovery process.
“Give yourself all of the time you need to recover and decompress,” Jani Bergdahl said. “There is no hurry.”
Watch Bergdahl read her letter via NBC:
Ted Cruz should be required to meet with these folks and explain to them on national TV why we should have sent in a military strike to extract their son.
I don’t know—I honestly wonder if even that could shame Ted Cruz. He knows as well as anyone that a military strike would have been a death sentence. But he just doesn’t care. He’ll literally say anything. I’ve never seen anyone like him in public life, and I was a college student when Nixon was president.
I am so happy for this family.
I too was in college when Nixon was president and Cruz makes Nixon look like Socrates in comparison. Mind you, Nixon also gave us the EPA.
Nixon also had H.R. Haldeman as his Chief of Staff, and “Bud” taught Dick Cheney everything he knows.