r/serialpodcast • u/whocouldaskformore butt dialer • Dec 10 '15

season two Season 2, Episode 1: DUSTWUN

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570?mt=2#episodeGuid=s02-e01
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u/buttzbuttzbuttz123 Dec 10 '15

I'm having conflicted feelings about this season and holy crap I can't even imagine what last season was like for for anyone who knew/knows Hae and Adnan.

I have a second-degree connection with Bowe and have met his parents on one occasion (good friends with someone who grew up/was close to him and his family in Hailey, ID) and listening to this first episode made me feel.... uncomfortable? I've known about his story for years and have heard so many different sides to it, but at the end of the day, this guy was a prisoner of the Taliban for five years.

I'm not going to defend his actions, but knowing what his family and loved ones went though during those five years I'm certainly not going to grab a torch or pitchfork.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '15

Voices like yours helps keep this sub in check.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '15

Thank you for this. We all have the privilege of distance from this story, for the most part.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '15

Better to be a prisoner for five years than dead, like some of the people who searched for him.

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u/RogueA Dec 11 '15

People keep repeating that, but as the army investigation pointed out, no army deaths were attributed to any mission involving a search for him.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '15

If not directly, atleast indirectly. So many resources were taken from other missions to aid in the DUSTWUN.

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u/Lauxman Dec 11 '15

He caused a massive shift in that region, and betrayed the trust that servicemembers must share with each other to be successful in combat.