for granted, but while bowe was gone, he was never forgotten. cheryl brandis, you lost your son. yes. matthew. matthew, yeah. how old was matthew? matthew was 20 years old. and you lost he lost his life searching for that sergeant? yes, he did. now that all this has come out, i can t think of anything worse than losing a child. i have two kids myself. it s the worse thing that can happen. absolutely. what is your reaction to all this? i m over i m outraged. i m overwhelmed with emotions. just with the thought of him being a deserter and then to find out that he was possibly collaborating with the taliban, and then for him to be called a hero is outraged. he served with honor and
friends, which all of us take for granted, but while bowe was gone, he was never forgotten. cheryl brandis, you lost your son. yes. matthew. matthew, yeah. how old was matthew? matthew was 20 years old. and you lost he lost his life searching for that sergeant? yes, he did. now that all this has come out, i can t think of anything worse than losing a child. i have two kids myself. it s the worse thing that can happen. absolutely. what is your reaction to all this? i m over i m outraged. i m overwhelmed with emotions. just with the thought of him being a deserter and then to find out that he was possibly collaborating with the taliban, and then for him to be called a hero is outraged. he served with honor and
this the question is what is the strategy here? what the foreign policy that s going into place here? is it is really troubling when you see the president of the united states. he lost his life searching for a man that everybody knew had deserted. i have spoken to many people in his platoon. i spoke with his mother today, his wife who gave birth to their daughter three months after he died and had a 2-year-old son from dallas, gave his life looking for him. they knew he was a deserter. is that a mistake and what do you think of the trade itself? obviously, this is incredibly troubling. if the military leadership if the administration did not have
what is the foreign policy that s going into place here. it is haphazard. whatever we need to do to move a press story a day to get something off the front page of the papers? i don t know. it s troubling. you see the president of the united states i spoke to darrin andrews from your state of texas. he lost his life searching for a man that everybody knew had deserted because i ve spoken tom, many people in his platoon. i spoke with his mother today. his wife who gave birth to their daughter three months after he died and had a 2-year-old son from dallas. gave his life looking for him. they knew he was a deserter. is that a mistake and what do you think of the trade itself? well, obviously, this is incredibly troubling. if the military leadership, if the administration did not have a better handle on this when we hear all of these conflicting stories out there, there s a
justice system could continue to function in this case. and as i mentioned, nbc news says that the army is preparing to launch a full high level inquiry and why do you believe that there is not going to be a public appetite, especially, roger, when you have, and their memories are their memories and that is why it requires an investigati investigation, but when you perhaps hear from these individuals who might testify in great detail about what happened in his disappearance and the alleged loss of life searching for him, don t you believe that the public wants to know? nobody wants to see bowe bergdahl hurt or injured, be you want to see him with the family, but you also, i think that the public would want to know what happene happened. there is no parent in america whose heart does not go out to the bergdahls, and not saying that if the circumstances involved my son or daughter, i would want them back. right. and there is no spouse who doesn t say that, but i think