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Serial - Serial S02 - Ep. 11: Present for Duty

The Season Two finale: What is Bowe’s fault, and what isn’t?

Serial S02 - Ep. 11: Present for Duty

I wanted to be a soldier, but I wanted to be World War II soldier.

And then we're out, out there handing out

He served the United States with honor and distinction.

The Supreme Frame was almost always that the guy was a traitor.

That's not something you can ever come back.

I haven't seen from you or any other journalist

a real dig into how the army came to that conclusion.

But as soon as you walk out that door, get ready

From this American life in WB Easy Chicago, it's cereal.

I'm driving to go pick up my dry cleaning.

And I'm listening to episode seven or whatever it was.

Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.

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0:00.0	30 second version.
0:02.0	How you know what that's one is right?
0:06.0	Previously, on cereal.
0:09.0	I wanted to be a soldier, but I wanted to be World War II soldier.
0:13.0	And then we're out, out there handing out
0:15.0	watercolor maps of Afghanistan.
0:17.0	We all felt like why are we up here?
0:21.0	This is fucking bullshit.
0:23.0	He's in Pakistan.
0:26.0	He served the United States with honor and distinction.
0:29.0	The Supreme Frame was almost always that the guy was a traitor.
0:32.0	That's not something you can ever come back.
0:34.0	I haven't seen from you or any other journalist
0:37.0	a real dig into how the army came to that conclusion.
0:40.0	But as soon as you walk out that door, get ready
0:42.0	because there's a shitstorm.
0:45.0	And it's not going away any time soon.
0:51.0	From this American life in WB Easy Chicago, it's cereal.
0:54.0	One story told week by week.
0:56.0	I'm Sarah Canick.
1:02.0	I'm driving to go pick up my dry cleaning.
1:06.0	And I'm listening to episode seven or whatever it was.
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Serial S02 - Ep. 11: Present for Duty

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