Posted on 09/03/2023 8:03:49 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Kelly Barnett had a "horrible feeling" about her son after learning of the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside Kabul's airport amid the hectic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I kept texting him, 'Are you OK? Are you good?'" Barnett, mother of Marine Staff Sgt. Darin "Taylor" Hoover, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in a segment that aired Sunday. "I had a three, three-hour drive back to my house. That whole drive home, I was sobbing. I knew something was wrong. I could feel it."
Hoover was one of 13 U.S. service members who died in the attack on Aug. 26, 2021. Raddatz sat down with his mother and the Gold Star family members of two other Marines killed that day.
As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in 2021, 6,000 U.S. troops were dispatched to the Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians desperate to flee. Abbey Gate was the only remaining public entrance for civilians who swarmed the gate despite the chaos and danger. It was there that the suicide bomber would detonate his device, ending the lives of the 13 service members and more than 170 Afghan civilians.
Less than a week before the bombing, Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee posted a photo of herself holding an infant at the Kabul airport with the caption, "I love my job." At 23 years old, Gee volunteered to join the mission.
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To bring this up on ABC now, they gotta be applying grease to the skids to dump this a-hole.
Problem is, they’ll probably come up with somebody more attractive to the loony left to run in his place.
Who does he think he is, George Bush?
I recall that name Martha Raddatz.
I think she worked for Mrs. Clinton back in 2008.
She was a Presidential Debate “moderator” in 2016.
Horrible job.
Oh, so it was in 2016.
I knew her as being part of the Sisterhood in Washington DC.
It was said at the time that Biden checked his watch after every coffin was offloaded from the plane. It has now been confirmed by multiple Gold Star family members.
What I’d like to know is what happened to the full video of him doing that. We’ve all seen the video of him doing that once so it’s not believable that the entire thing wasn’t taped.
I’m old enough to remember when GHWBush (yuck) checked his watch *once* during a debate with BillyJeff and the media fury that ensued. “HOW DARE HE NOT GIVE HIS FULL ATTENTION TO blah blah blah. It’s easy to look it up online since it was Such A Big Deal!!
Brandon was presiding over the solemn return of the remains of soldiers for whose deaths he was responsible, yet pedoJoe needed to check his watch (multiple times)?
It was probably the guilt.. he couldn’t bear to look at the devastation he had caused...
A story about the terrible disrespect from August 2021:
Give Sleepy a break, he was only checking his watch to know how much longer to nap time.
Wow - that seems very................Obama-like
Video is a must watch.
Listen to how the hispanic mother disrespects the POS in the WH, “It was all about him (zhoa biden).”
Have to love the Gold Star mother says, with a smile, “That was my daughter- and she meant it,” when Rataz says, “Someone yelled Burn in Hell!”
They did wait until Sunday night on a three day holiday weekend.
How many people will be talking about this on Tuesday?
As I read he is not even attending a memorial for 911
Too many watch-checks
What kind of watch IS it? /s He’s probably worried about losing it in a fire or something so he keeps an eye on it lest some notable tragedy suddenly strike.
Yeah I know. Sort of like, “all this for a damn flag…”
I so despise these people.
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