Har du begynt å høre på den nye sesongen av Serial?

[Tallulah]

Det har jeg! Den ble lagt ut på torsdag, og var så etterlengtet at siden kræsjet fullstendig.

Denne gangen tar de for seg hva som egentlig skjedde da den unge soldaten Bowe Bergdahl forlot posten sin i Afghanistan og ble tatt til fange av Taliban.

Jeg er allerede fascinert. Der hvor første sesong ganske raskt ga meg klart sympati for Adnan, så er jeg litt mer på "er han helt dust, eller!?" denne gangen. Jeg blir utrolig fascinert av hva i et menneske som får det til å velge den løsningen han gjorde framfor andre, mer konvesjonelle kanaler for å sette lys på det ha ville.

Sitat:

In May 2014, a U.S. Special Operations team in a Black Hawk helicopter landed in the hills of Afghanistan. Waiting for them were more than a dozen Taliban fighters and a tall American, who looked pale and out of sorts: Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier, had been a prisoner of the Taliban for nearly five years, and now he was going home.

President Obama announced Bergdahl’s return in the Rose Garden, with the soldier's parents at his side. Bergdahl's hometown of Hailey, Idaho, planned a big celebration to welcome him back. But then, within days—within hours of his rescue, in fact—public reaction to his return flipped. People started saying Bergdahl shouldn’t be celebrated. Some of the soldiers from his unit called him a deserter, a traitor. They said he had deliberately walked off their small outpost in eastern Afghanistan and into hostile territory.

Hailey canceled its celebration. The army launched an investigation. Finally, in March, the military charged Bergdahl with two crimes, one of which carries the possibility of a life sentence. Through all of this, Bergdahl has been quiet. He hasn’t spoken to the press or done any interviews on TV. He’s been like a ghost at the center of a raucous fight.

Now, in Season Two, we get to hear what he has to say.

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