Posted on 06/01/2014 8:19:15 PM PDT by windcliff
HAILEY, Idaho — It looked as if it was going to be a big weekend here in the Wood River Valley in Central Idaho
But when news began to spread Saturday that Bowe Bergdahl was finally free it became a far more momentous weekend than anyone could have imagined in a community where Sergeant Bergdahl’s fate has been a central fact of life since his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009.
“It’s really, really amazing and incredible, fantastic news,” said Molly Goodyear, who was getting lunches at Atkinson’s Market for children playing soccer with Sawtooth United under-13 girls’ team on Saturday when she got a text with the news.
You can’t go anywhere in Hailey without thinking about it,” she said. “There was a sticker for Bowe at the deli counter. I remember thinking about how long it has been. Even in 2011, it seemed so long. It’s going to be a long, hard reintegration for him, I think. But this is such a great community for him to return to. People will do so much for him.”
In churches on Sunday and among the steady stream of residents sharing information at Zaney’s River Street Coffee House, Sergeant Bergdahl’s release dominated all talk. The focus was both on what he had gone through and on what they all could expect in the future.
Debbie ONeill and her daughter, Stefanie, have been leading much of the public vigil and are organizers of a second-annual event scheduled for June 28 that was to be called Bring Bowe Back 2014, intended to focus attention to the soldier’s plight. Carole King is scheduled to perform along with Travis Hardy.
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the scumbag taliban will be celebrating too. those monkeys will be firing their AK-47s and jabbering to allah-in-wonderland for the next 3 weeks.
The people there are ignorant of the realities involved and, apparently, willingly accepting the false narrative on PFC Bowe Bergdahl’s “heroic” time with the Islamists.
Obama isn’t a very good negotiator. He wanted to release ALL of the terrorists at Guantanamo, but the Taliban would only take five of them.
Its Berkley in Idaho !
I hope some of his former platoon mates are there to welcome him...
in case anyone would like more info about the ‘event’ -
Mayor Fritz Haemmerle
Phone: 208-788-4221 ext. 30
Heather Dawson
City Administrator
Phone: 208-788-4221 ext. 18
E-mail: heather.dawson@haileycityhall.org
No they are rich Cali left wing nut-jobs.
They would invite the 9-11 terrorist camp there with open arms!
What about the ones who died while trying to rescue this traitor? They aren’t coming home. Bergdahl committed treason and so did those who traded military assets to free him. Treason. High crimes.
None of that conspiracy theory happened.
The VA scandal was hurting Obama and the Dems badly. The news cycle needed to be changed to something else. Now the presstitutes can stop talking about dead veterans piled up like cordwood and make Obama look good again.
His homies don’t know his history.
I wish we could find hard, irrefutable evidence of his desertion.
I really hope it turns up.
Don’t forget the fat ladies in burqas dancing and ululating, like they did on 9/11/01.
His homies don’t know his history.
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Maybe Jessica Lynch should show up and remind the ‘good folks’ (who must have wondered what was up with ‘Crazy Bob’) what good American towns and states do when they find out their Government hoodwinked them into thinking people were heroes for the ‘face time’.
Big Bobber(’) mentioned BO not being a good negotiator cause they would only take 5 of ‘em back.
They can’t ‘afford’ to take many more, the way WE have spoiled them and been waiting on them hand and foot for the last few years.
It will take forever to whip them boys back into fighting shape, they have been so spoiled...
Idaho?
Don't the license plates there say: "The Right Wing Extremist State"?
Idaho Freepers, get your signs ready.
The Westboro Baptist Church?...They're all democRATs.
The MSM will hype it to the point that the truth will become irrelevant. Maybe even “mean” and “cruel.”
I realize that Haley Idaho might be a tourist trap area, a yuppie area, but aren’t there some good Mormons down there that can smell the coffee?....for crying out loud, this guy left his post and said he was ashamed of America....he’s a traitor...well I guess he can join bammey the boy...
Doubt the care since their county was reportedly the only county in the state that went for the lyin’king boof times. ‘08&’12. Sun Valley. Home to obnoxious hollyweird types. To those asshats, he’s a hero.
Hailey has been Californicated, full of Hollywood types.
You’re presuming that Obama cares about that.
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