On this Wednesday, politics symbolically honors the approximately 93,000 German soldiers who have been deployed in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2002. 59 of them have perished in these twenty years, “fallen” as the expression often used in military and veteran circles is called. The big tattoo is scheduled in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin; The heads of the state and the military, including the Federal President, the current Chancellor and her Defense Minister, have announced themselves. The ceremony is intended to be an expression of thanks and recognition of the achievements of the Bundeswehr in a difficult, always controversial and shamefully ended mission.
Big tattoo on the Afghanistan mission: a symbol of alienation – opinion
