re: #550 Justanotherhuman

Well, the Hastings article I read said that his parents started out as ski bums who went to Idaho and settled in. They’re also strict Calvinists.

“Bowe Robert Bergdahl was born in Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 28th, 1986 - the same day as Lady Gaga, as his parents like to point out. Bob and Jani had moved to Idaho from California after college, building a small, two-bedroom home on 40 acres of farmland not far from the small town of Hailey, deep in the mountains of Wood River Valley. His father worked construction, his mother odd jobs, living the life of ski bums, nearly off the grid. In 1983, the year Bowe’s older sister Sky was born, his parents pulled in $7,000 and paid off the hospital bills for her birth with weekly $20 deposits.

“Rather than put their kids in the local school system, Jani and Bob home-schooled Bowe and his sister. Devout Calvinists, they taught the children for six hours a day, instructing them in religious thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. “Ethics and morality would be constant verbiage in our conversations,” his father recalls. “Bowe was definitely instilled with truth. He was very philosophical about perceiving ethics.”

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They seem like the kind of people that conservatives would normally see as pillars. You know, moving from blue California to red Idaho, home-schooling their kids heavily in religious philosophy, etc but they were part of something that’s making Obama look like a decent leader so smear campaign aho!