Twenty years after Patrick Herron was killed during the Vietnam War, his parents, Patrick Sr. and Catherine Herron, received their son’s Purple Heart medal in…
enemy by endangering the safety of a command unit or place and has referred the case to an article 32 preliminary hearing. bergdahl faces potential life in prison on the charge of misbehavior before the enemy five years on the desertion charge. he also faces dishonorable discharge reduction in rank and forfeiture of all of his pay. he may face court-martial if the charges aren t dropped preliminary hearing. k.g., let s talk to you for a second. they avoided the death penalty. why do you think they did that? yeah, i mean, i don t think it s going to be necessary in this particular case. i don t think it has good optics for anybody involved. the whole point was we bring our own home. we have done that at great expense. at great expense to those that looked for him, searched for him, tried to rescue him and lost their lives to the families who are waiting for their loved ones to come home, and that day will never happen. then, of course, even worse is now the fact that the f
commanders. in one year from date, and that was may. so we re coming up on that one-year anniversary. they were free what they want to do. catherine herron points out, three of the five have rejoined the taliban. this was this was a terrible deal. he possibly would have died, okay. but they also possibly could have died. and so i think the calculus probably was of all the bad options, the least bad option is the option that they took. i m not suggesting it is or it isn t. i don t know what the intelligence was on this. maybe that s true, but now that could be true. but then why within the next 24 hours, do they not have the presence of mind to dial it back? every time susan rice has gone on the sunday shows she s actually known beforehand that what she s about to say is not true, like the video. i find that very bizarre. yeah. but it goes back to this interesting element gitmo, what does gitmo symbolize?