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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Chosen Daughter on October 20, 2019, 01:30:14 am
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'It breaks my heart': Anonymous US military spouse writes letter to Kurds
by Mike Brest
| October 18, 2019 03:47 PM
The wife of a Special Operations soldier who was stationed in the Middle East apologized to the Kurds in an open letter weeks after the Trump administration announced U.S. troops were leaving the region.
The writer, who asked to remain anonymous, published, "A letter to Kurdish soldiers from a U.S. military wife," on CNN Friday afternoon.
Following her husband's return home, he told her "stories of how the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq supported the troops, advised them, stood by them, fought shoulder to shoulder with them in combat, and became allies and friends. And I became grateful — immensely, unwaveringly, and forever grateful for you."......……………
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/it-breaks-my-heart-anonymous-us-military-spouse-writes-letter-to-kurds (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/it-breaks-my-heart-anonymous-us-military-spouse-writes-letter-to-kurds)