Are there more “Benghazis” that the American people just don’t know about ? What about more than a dozen Navy Seals of “SEAL TEAM SIX” fame and dozens of other personnel, all killed by “one lucky shot” fired by the Taliban on August 6, 2011 ?

Were thirty American servicemen “executed” by the Taliban in retaliation for the killing of Osama Bin Laden ?  Were thirty American servicemen ambushed in an inside job ?  Were thirty American servicemen killed because of bad planning and “politically correct” rules of engagement ?   All of the above?  Something completely different ?  Were the fallen Americans called “the defeated” in an Islamic service conducted at the U.S. base in Afghanistan ?

—   The people who know are not saying...

—   And the families and others who really care are not being told very much... 

On August 6, 2011, a group that included 25 American special operations personnel, five U.S. Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, a U.S. military dog, seven Afghan commandos and an Afghan interpreter supposedly were killed when their very old Chinook helicopter was downed by a “lucky shot” of a Taliban-launched rocket propelled grenade.

On August 9, 2011, during one of those all too frequent casket ceremonies at J.B. Dover, when the incident is important enough for even the President of the United States to show up and say a few words to the grieving and bereft, POTUS Obama whispered to one of the parents of a dead Navy Seal, “We will look very, very, very deep into this.”

Well, enough of that !

Now, when  parents of any of the thirty Americans killed in that Chinook helicopter on August 6, 2011 ask any questions about the incident, they are either ignored or told to “quit harassing” the high government officials who are in positions to find out and tell them what happened (See “WND EXCLUSIVE –  NAVY SEALS SACRIFICED TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS? – Families say insane rules of engagement cost their sons' lives” by Garth Kaht, 5/9/13, Wold Net Daily http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/navy-seals-sacrificed-to-political-correctness/#zPOlKFjZLBS4dDf1.99]; see also “Parents of Slain Navy SEAL: The White House Is Responsible” 5/9/13, by Bill Hoffman, Fox News [http://nation.foxnews.com/navy-seal/2013/05/09/parents-slain-navy-seal-white-house-responsible#ixzz2SuGrndiz] [(same as a Newsmax article with a video link to an interview of these parents by Steve Malzberg of NewsmaxTV]).

Early reports had indicated that the helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011 marked the largest single loss of U.S. military lives in the 10-year war.  Lt. Cmdr. Jonas Kelsall and 16 others were part of Naval Special Warfare Command, nearly all of them members of SEAL Team 6, the unit that conducted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and is made up of just a few hundred of some of the best-trained fighters in the U.S. military. And that among the fallen were five support sailors, five aircrew members from the Army's 10th Mountain Division and three Air Force ground support personnel ( See “Father of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan: 'He loved what he did'” 8/10/11, LA Times Blogs [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/father-of-navy-seal-killed-in-afghanistan-said-he-loved-what-he-did.html]). It is interesting that shortly after the original incident, in the story about Lt. Cmdr. Jonas Kelsall, who was one of 30 U.S. servicemen killed in the helicopter crash, it was reported that  “... A subsequent U.S. airstrike killed the local Taliban leader as well as the man determined to have actually shot the chopper down...”

There is still confusion in the reports as to who exactly was on board the Chinook helicopter at the time that it crashed.

In addition, there is a claim by the parents of one of the deceased service personnel that these fallen Americans were subjected to a formal post mortem Islamic ceremony in violation of their First Amendment Rights, held at the American base at Bagram, during which the dead Americans were described as having been defeated.  According to Bill Vaughn, father of Navy Seal Aaron Carson Vaughn,  “At the ceremony at Bagram Air Force Base, the military allowed an imam to desecrate their bodies with an Islamic prayer that he helped pray their souls into hell [as] infidels and, in the end, said that the Muslims are the winners”  (See  “Parents of Slain Navy SEAL: The White House Is Responsible” by Bill Hoffman, 5/9/13, Newsamax [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/slain-navy-seal-Afghanistan/2013/05/09/id/503754] ).