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“If you really, really still stand Sept. 11, 2001, which spurred the
behind what's allowed this to U n i t e d S t a t e s t o i n v a d e
happen and the way it happened – Afghanistan in order to topple al-
which was unnecessary then I Qaida and dismantle their Taliban
really don't want to be associated hosts who ruled the country.
with you in any way and I certainly
don't want your business,” she They include a 20-year-old Marine
added. “I've had people come to from Wyoming who had been
the door and look at it and turn expecting his first child in three
around and walk away. And I've weeks and a 22-year-old Navy
had people come into the kitchen corpsman who in his last
while I'm cooking and say, 'Hey, I FaceTime conversation with his
love your sign.'” mother assured her that he would
stay safe because “my guys got
Eleven of the 13 U.S. service me.”
members who died in the Kabul
attack were Marines. One was an At their deaths, the 13 young
Army soldier and another was a service members were on the
Navy corpsman. ground for the U.S. coda to its
longest war, assisting a chaotic
The dead ranged in age from 20 to evacuation of Americans and of
31 and came from California and Afghans who helped the U.S. war
Massachusetts and states in effort and are now fleeing the
between. Five were just 20 — born Taliban after their return to power.
not long before the attacks of
