Veterans of Afghan war express frustration, heartbreak watching Taliban seize power.
But for most of them, watching as the Taliban reclaimed the country in a chaotic scene that unfolded as the American-backed government quickly collapsed evoked a range of emotions and left them questioning the sacrifices.
“I keep going back and forth about how I feel about it: angry, sad, embarrassed,” he said. “As someone whose family business is the military, going back to literally the Revolutionary War, I never wanted to do anything else other than serve. I am completely embarrassed of my country right now.”“I'm not mad that we're leaving,” said John Rogers, who served with the Army in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 as an engineer.
“It seems like a lot of the ‘why’ is being washed away,” said Colin Dewey, a Navy veteran who is still wracked with doubts about his work in Afghanistan helping to select targets to be killed or captured. “In today's environment, I would not be encouraging my kids to join the military,” he said, though he and his wife agreed to let their three children decide for themselves. “I would not want my children to be pawns in someone else's political ordeal.”
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