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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Parents Speak About His Return [Watch (HLS stream): Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Parents Speak About His Return](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ijsCQhO4.m3u8) (3:12)  _Published 2014-06-01. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Parents Speak About His Return_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:44 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Rice: Bergdahl's side of story matters](/video/TxfdvgKM/) ### Rice: Bergdahl's side of story matters [Bergdahl's Release Sparks Political Fallout](/video/BBwMzOBN/) ### Bergdahl's Release Sparks Political Fallout [Qatar's Mysterious Role in Bergdahl's Release](/video/bDGQvnh8/) ### Qatar's Mysterious Role in Bergdahl's Release --- ## Transcript I love you Bowe. I'm so very proud of you. And, of course, all of your very large family would also like me to tell you that they love you also and are also very proud of you. We've been working very, very hard for your release these last five years along with the whole of our government even other governments and most especially, of course, Cutter. Never losing hope in you or for you. Right now so many people are in place to assist you in all the aspects of your recovery to full health. Trust them. It's okay. And give yourself all of the time you need to recover and decompress. There is no hurry. You have your life ahead of you. We continue in our minute by minute prayers for you as you go through this healing process and we praise God for your freedom. I imagine you are more patient and compassionate than ever. You are free. Freedom is yours. I will see you soon my beloved son, Bowe. I love you Bowe. Bowe, I love you. I'm your father. [ UNKNOWN ] I have written to you over and over. [ FOREIGN ]. Can you speak English still? I would write him. But now I hope that when you hear this and when you're ready to hear this and when you see this I hope your English is coming, coming back. And I want you to know that I love you. I'm proud of you. I'm so proud of your character. I'm so thought, proud of your patience and your perseverance. I am so proud of your cultural abilities to adapt, your language skills, your, your desire and your action to serve this country in a very difficult long war. But most of all, I'm proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people and what you were willing to do to go to that length. I'll say it again, I am so proud of how far you were willing to go to help the Afghan people and I think you have succeeded. We're talking like this because we haven't talked into, talked to Bowe yet. We haven't called him on the phone. Although you all know we have the, we have the capability to do that with satellite technology. There's a reason for that and that's because Bowe has been gone so long that it's gonna be very difficult to come back. It's like a diver going deep on a dive and, and has to stage back up through recompression to get the nitrogen bubbles out of his system. If he comes up too fast it could kill him. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Parents Speak About His Return","description":"Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Parents Speak About His Return","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ijsCQhO4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-01T20:22:19.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ijsCQhO4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/ijsCQhO4/","duration":"PT3M12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/ijsCQhO4/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```