This letter is from my son, 19, in Afghanistan that I received on Facebook. This is the most relieving and revealing thing I’ve heard since he left to go there almost a month ago. I’ve been sooo worried until this letter…some part left out for privacy reasons.
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April 20,2010
It’s weird sitting there behind a 50 cal, a MK 19, and a 240 sitting in villages watching the kids run around and play cricket and soccer just beyond my barrels.. I don’t feel like a belong here and i just try to tell myself that I’m helping these people.. [] now were just here to help the population get on its feet..
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We roll around with the afghanistan national army or hike through the mountains just trying to weed the taliban out of the population..
But honestly.. it doesn’t seem like they hardly exist anymore..
