For many Afghan soldiers is a matter of survival both physically and financially which often trumps any ideological motivation. Sources have also claimed that MI6 are holding secret talks with the Taliban, and that British spooks wanted to tell them the war is over as far as the UK is concerned provided they do not give any terrorist sanctuary.
Taliban leaders were also told that the UK would be willing to reopen the embassy in Kabul and provide assistance to the new government providing there are no more human rights abuses. At least two British generals also had to be talked out of resigning following the collapse of the Afghan army and the failure to evacuate interpreters. Both officers are believed to have considered their positions as a matter of honour but are understood to have been told that their resignations would serve no useful purpose.
It comes as the last UK civilian evacuation flight left the airport on Saturday and left British passport holders still stranded in the city. It ended the biggest military evacuation in 80 years, and signalled the end of two decades of military involvement in war-torn Afghanistan.
More than 15, people including 5, British nationals have been airlifted to safety in less than two weeks under Operation Pitting. In a shock move, senior commanders have also refused to rule out the possibility of the task force working alongside the Taliban to take on IS-K.
We know of no civilian casualties. For many Afghan soldiers is a matter of survival both physically and financially which often trumps any ideological motivation. Sources have also claimed that MI6 are holding secret talks with the Taliban, and that British spooks wanted to tell them the war is over as far as the UK is concerned provided they do not give any terrorist sanctuary.
Taliban leaders were also told that the UK would be willing to reopen the embassy in Kabul and provide assistance to the new government providing there are no more human rights abuses. At least two British generals also had to be talked out of resigning following the collapse of the Afghan army and the failure to evacuate interpreters.
Both officers are believed to have considered their positions as a matter of honour but are understood to have been told that their resignations would serve no useful purpose. It comes as the last UK civilian evacuation flight left the airport on Saturday and left British passport holders still stranded in the city. Alongside it hangs a glass bead, blown with the ashes of another young Marine: Cpl. Paul Wedgewood, who made it home. The Darkhorse Battalion returned to California in April Leaders of the provincial government could move about safely.
Children, including girls, returned to school. It came at a heavy price. In addition to the 25 who perished, more than returned home wounded, many with lost limbs, others with scars harder to see. Wedgewood had trouble sleeping when he finished his four-year enlistment and left the Marine Corps in As he slept less, he drank more. A tattoo on his upper arm showed a sheet of scroll paper bearing the names of four Marines who died in Sangin.
Instead, Wedgewood enrolled in college back home in Colorado, but soon lost interest. A welding program at a community college proved a better fit. Wedgewood had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He was taking medication, participating in therapy. Still, he struggled. On the Fourth of July, Wedgewood would take his dog camping in the woods to avoid fireworks. He quit a job he liked after a backfiring machine caused him to dive to the floor.
Five years after Sangin, things appeared to be looking up. Wedgewood was preparing for a new job that would take him back to Afghanistan as a private security contractor. He seemed to be in a good place. A roommate later found him dead in his bedroom.
He had shot himself. He was 25 years old. She considers her son and others who took their own lives to be casualties of war every bit as much as those killed in action. But there was also sadness that gains made by the Afghan people — especially women and children — may be temporary. Some who served with the Darkhorse Battalion are having a hard time seeing it any way other than that their efforts, their blood and the lives of their fallen friends were all for nothing.
In the blink of an eye. Barba, 34, works as a private security guard near Los Angeles. He and his wife are expecting their first child. His wife recently woke to Barba screaming in his sleep. But not like this. This is like somebody spit in their face. Johnson, 34, works as a commercial diver in Florida. He said the U. A few months ago, Gretchen Catherwood was painting the cabins that will become the Darkhorse Lodge. It was dark, still without electricity and no cell service, so it was quiet.
She felt suddenly like she could feel her son and his 24 fallen comrades. She could almost see their faces. The Catherwoods moved out of their home in Illinois. Every time she walked to the front door, Gretchen remembered those four men arriving with the news. The gold star pins she wore everyday on her chest kept breaking.
But then she found herself at a tattoo parlor. She could no longer care for her son, she said, but she could for those who made it home. She and her husband moved to the woods in Tennessee and got to work on the Darkhorse Lodge.
The artist who drew theirs softened its edges and turned it to the right, facing toward a future after war. They raised a million dollars, mostly in small donations.
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