Posted on 08/28/2021 6:01:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A woman who cradled a baby in her arms at the airport and posted on social media that she loved her job. A young husband with a child on the way. Another man who always wanted to be in the military. A man who planned to become a sheriff’s deputy when his deployment ended. Heart-wrenching details have emerged about some of the 13 US troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport, which also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans.
Eleven Marines, one Navy sailor and one Army soldier were among the dead, while 18 other US service members were wounded in Thursday’s bombing, which was blamed on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group. The US said it was the most lethal day for American forces in Afghanistan since 2011.
Twelve of them were in the 20s; some were born in 2001, the year America’s longest war began. The oldest was 31.
Here are the stories of some of the victims and the people who are mourning them:
Nicole Gee, 23
A week before she was killed, Sgt. Nicole Gee cradled a baby in her arms at the Kabul airport. She posted the photo on Instagram and wrote, “I love my job.”…
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Very tragic, these people were our best.
Prayers for them and for their families, who must not only be grieving but must be infuriated by how unnecessary this was. I know I’d be on my way to DC to find anybody I could and tell them this to their face. But all the people behind these terrible decisions are in deep hiding and the peasants - that would be us and other normal citizens - will never get anywhere near them.
I want to blame this sad and infuriating tragedy entirely on Joe Biden. But then I remember that George W. Bush set this all in motion. So both Biden and Bush can go to hell. Blood is on both their hands.
What I want to say and do cannot be said nor can I do anything without being put into the American political prison system. The female Marine could have been my daughter. My blood boils.
Very insightful and well said.
Wrenching for all of us but of course searingly painful for their loved ones. Their hopes and dreams for the future of their dear ones are gone in an instant. Holes in their lives that can never be filled.
I wasn’t ready for this …You ready for this?
Not only does Biden have American's blood on his hands, so does Fox News.
But not until after they first betrayed a sitting President and an entire nation with their deaf, dumb, and silence on witnessing election fraud to oust Trump.
Our country is incredible in some ways, and absolutely disgusting in other ways. It’s hard to reconcile.
I hold the media 100% responsible. Their lies gave us biden. Their lies are keeping biden in the White House. Biden has blood on his hands.
Imagine where our Country would be right now if the media had told the truth. Biden would be in Gitmo.
I saw a video of one of our soldiers giving the Afghan kids drinks of water from a water bottle. He was so happy. I thought “and these are the types of people that died. Out there just to help others.”
The last election is evidence that they might have been THE problem.
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