Bergdahl Dad: I Haven’t Talked to Bowe Yet Even Though I Could Call Him

Bergdahl Dad: I Haven't Talked to Bowe Yet Even Though I Could Call Him (YouTube)

I'd like to start in the back row and just go name by name by name of all of the people who have supported us from the beginning of this. And then we can go across the country and then across the world, and that would be appropriate. So, unfortunately, we don't have the time or the music will start playing and we have to leave.

We're talking like this because we haven't talked to Bowe yet. We haven't called him on the phone. Although you all know we have the capability to do that with satellite technology. There's reason for that, and that's because Bowe has been gone so long that it's going to be very difficult to come back. It's like a diver going deep on a dive 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.

Now, we're pretty resilient, Jani pointed out, Bowe is still very resilient. He's passed through all the checkpoints with flying colors. But this is very well-organized.

As you can see by the gentleman on the end of the row there, Doc Poppin (ph), he's our psychologist. He is one of the men running this recovery and reintegration. And we've known doc for how long? Four, five -- the first year, the first summer, I think.

So, going all the way back there, we've had this kind of support behind us.