Hindsight

"And I...you know, I really think so much of it had to do with questions of...of virtue, of what was right. More than anything, I think that's what he...that's what he was really working on and focused on all the time, was coming up with this...these values for himself" said Nick, son of Kim Harrison when asked about Bowe. Bowe was very attached to Harrison's family.

 He lived with them for months in a stretch. Bowe was not very close to his own family, they had issues. Nick and Bowe worked together in Stager. They were buddies. Kayla was close to Bowe and Kim was like his mother. They know things about Bowe. How he was, where he came from and what are his goals. They said Bowe was a protector. An ethical person, a gentleman and constantly working for improvement in himself. According to Kayla, Bowe had a rigid code of principles, he could not understand how people can be OK with things that are not morally right. "Like, his...he has the least flexible system ever," she says. Kim was always worried about Bowe and his choices. Bowe went to France, went to coast guard boot camp where he was separated due to a mental break down, and later joined the army. According to Kim all of these are not the things for Bowe because he had been homeschooled and basically lived in isolation. He had a hard time coping up with society and their way of living lives.  Kim was not happy that he had decided to join the army after being eliminated from coast guard due to anxiety and depression. The coast guard doctor had strictly mentioned in Bowe's medical document that he needed clearance before getting back in navy or military. But Bowe REALLY wanted to join the army and he was accepted. However, to everyone around him thought that it did not make sense for him to make such decision based on his past experiences with these kinds of jobs. Shortly after his deployment in Afghanistan, Bowe started making connections with locals and AGPs. It was weird for his inmates to notice him getting so friendly with them because they were on the other side of the war. They were the enemies. But for Bowe, they were humans. A night before Bowe left his post, he discussed the "disappear plan" with an inmate, they jokingly discussed foolish plans in free time about how to get rid of their situation in OP Mest. And then the next day, nobody but Bowe decided to really walk off his post and into the deserted mountains. He had enacted upon those jokes and now he was in captivity by Taliban. So, did the army screw up by recruiting Bowe Bergdahl whereas, he was restricted? Yes. Why did the coast guard medical documents of Bowe was never discovered by the military before he was deployed? That doesn't mean he cheated and sneak in the army. It was the military's fault and their small mistake has now turned out to be a big dilemma for US government. Bowe's vision was an army was nothing like the one he was put into. He applied for army recruitment thinking to serve a nation, help people, fight the bad ones and be a warrior. He was now a modern soldier in a dern military where things were shrugged out and least cared about. The reason why nobody but Bowe walked away was that this carelessness bothered him a lot and he could not ignore the facts that even modern military was led unprofessionally and the functioning was nothing like how it is supposed to be. The military is extremely influential and significant. For Bowe Berghdahl, this was serious and he could not just shrug it off. Unlike others, he REALLY REALLY cared. He cared about it more than his life and made a decision to bring attention to it. IN one of his emails to NIck, he said, "It is not the being of value who fails the system, it is the system that has failed the man. For man should not stoop to fit the system, but the system should be made and remade to fit the man who holds value as worth. I will serve no bandit nor liar, for I know John Galt and understand. This life is too short to serve those who compromise value and its ethics. I am done compromising." 

 After listening to the Hindsights, Bowe really got into my mind. I could feel what he would have felt in Afghanistan. I feel a strange connection with him. Although, his actions put many lives on a stake and a lot of material things at risk. He did the right thing. He was a moral person and had ethics and principles. That is rare in the modern world. There are very fewer people who actually care about the world and not just themselves. Especially, the military if nobody else should've understood where he came from and were the reasons behind his actions. Because the military is been trusted for millions of lives and if they seem to care the least or ignore the threats, we need a better military or none at all. In my opinion, Bowe Bergdahl only fulfilled his moral obligation towards his country and its people. And if anybody is at fault is the military that did not do its job right and recruited Bowe in the army in the first place.