The message in the link I just posted from Shawn VanDiver, a US Navy veteran, makes you proud doesnt it?
"We see you. We know you were right there with us."
That was the message from Shawn VanDiver, a US Navy veteran, after President Trump claimed Nato allies "stayed a little back" from the front lines during the war in Afghanistan.
VanDiver, who served off the coast of Iraq and now leads Afghan EVAC, a group that helps Afghan wartime allies resettle, tells the BBC the president’s comments were "just not true", saying Nato forces fought "right alongside American forces" in Afghanistan and beyond.
"We could not have accomplished what we did without them," he tells me.
"I recall numerous times working alongside British troops while I served in the military, and I’m ****ed off that the president would diminish their contributions," he says, adding many American veterans would feel the same way, given the close bonds forged in combat.
Asked how British families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan might be feeling, VanDiver said they would likely feel "betrayed", adding: "What I would say to those families is I’m sorry."
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