“Last year I tried to commit suicide.
I WAS VERY ILL.
My marriage came to an end, I almost lost my son and did not know what to do.
Many of the guys I served with no longer talk to each other, they just try to forget about everything and move on, ”said Cole.
The veteran noted that his friend died after being blown up by a mine.
“His arms and legs were torn off.
It seems that then the combat losses of our group amounted to 17 people.
Many of the survivors were affected by what they saw, ”he recalls.
According to the man, initially the soldiers were sent to burn poppy fields, but when they landed in Afghanistan, the plan changed - they had to fight.
At present, he believes that the mission in Afghanistan was pointless, and calls the withdrawal of troops "a mess."
“If the Biden administration had coordinated actions with their allies, this would not have happened.
And it turned out that first they took out the military, and then they began to think about what to do with the civilians ... We left a mountain of equipment there, lost a lot of people and so easily abandoned everything, ”Cole said.
Also within the framework of the project, members of a family who lost ten people from an American drone strike in Kabul, seven of whom are children, told how their relatives are going through the tragedy.