Afghan villagers dissatisfied with life sentence for massacre
Sunday, August 25, 2013
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The villagers traveled nearly 7,000 miles to learn the fate of the American soldier who gunned down their children, siblings and parents, who set their lifeless bodies afire with a kerosene lantern. And when the news came, it came in a simple gesture: a thumb's up from their interpreter.
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