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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. |
0:23.2 | Alright guys, this is the next episode in the botching Afghanistan series and this is with Michelle Black. |
0:27.4 | Michelle Black was on episode 198 of this podcast. We had a very, very emotional but awesome interview |
0:33.2 | where we talked about her book Sacrifice, a Gold Star Widow's fight for the truth. So she lost her |
0:37.2 | husband Brian, not in Afghanistan, but she lost him in kind of the Niger, Mali area in Africa. |
0:42.9 | And she has a unique perspective as all these guests have in the series because she has a gold |
0:47.6 | star widow, right? This is a person who has had to live with that as she continues to try to raise |
0:53.9 | her her boys and to kind of traverse through society and through what the future is going to look |
0:58.6 | like. And so I appreciated her being able to take some time to talk about this because again, |
1:03.2 | for a lot of Gold Star families, this has really reopened some wounds. And so again, I don't |
1:07.6 | want to keep her from you any longer. No fanfare. Let's get into it. Michelle, thank you for coming |
1:12.2 | back on the show. I know that the circumstances are a little bit crazy. We're not going to be doing |
1:15.9 | the same level of fanfare that we did with the last episode. But I know that a lot of my listeners |
1:20.5 | would love to hear your perspective on what's going on. And we'll just kind of figure it out from |
1:25.0 | where we start. But I just wanted to just initially kick it off with getting your overall thoughts |
1:30.4 | as to what has happened in Afghanistan and what is currently happening on the ground there. |
1:36.3 | Well, first of all, I appreciate you having me on Kyle. My initial thoughts, I think I'm feeling |
1:44.4 | what so many Americans are feeling, which is just devastated. Seeing the images from yesterday, |
1:53.6 | it was very similar. It was like reliving 9-11, honestly. But almost worse, because even though |
2:06.5 | it was not in our country, you felt so helpless. And it comes after years of sacrificing so much. |
2:20.6 | For what we hoped would one day be, you know, some freedom for the for the Afghan people. |
2:34.1 | I think that when you sacrifice, you know, spouses, you sacrifice, you know, the fathers and |
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