KETCHUM, Idaho — In 2003, the year he turned 17, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his mark on the wet cement floor of the Strega Tea Bar Gallery and Cafe, a swirling design signed with a florid “B.” The drawing is a lasting statement that this liberal-tinctured ski resort town, where he took ballet and fencing lessons, met artists and debated philosophy, had become his second home. His first, a dozen miles south in Hailey — the worker bee colony to Ketchum’s moneyed hive, some residents called it — was a different place altogether. There, Sergeant Bergdahl was home-schooled by his parents and taught a conservative theology of biblical inerrancy. He learned the ways of guns, became a crack shot and developed an abiding interest in the military. For years, his family’s rustic cabin had no telephone.
“It’s pretty worldly up in Ketchum,” said Lee Ann Ferris, a neighbor of the Bergdahls in Hailey. “Down here, kids aren’t exposed to as much.”
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is undergoing outpatient treatment.Bergdahl to Be Questioned About Leaving Army PostJUNE 25, 2014 Bergdahl Begins Outpatient TreatmentJUNE 22, 2014 video Video: U.S. Army begins probe into Bergdahl's disappearanceJUNE 17, 2014 Today, military investigators are trying to untangle what has become the central mystery of Sergeant Bergdahl’s life: how, and why, he disappeared from his remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan in 2009, to be captured and held by the Taliban until his release in May in exchange for five Taliban detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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