American and Afghan 'brothers' plead for help for those left behind to Taliban offensive.
. That includes interpreters and other contractors who worked for the U.S. for less than two years or worked for U.S.-funded projects, but not directly for the government, as well as Afghan journalists for U.S. media outlets.
In an internal cable obtained by ABC News Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul urged State Department leadership to change that, saying that Afghans"under threat because of their work with the U.S. government ... cannot get out." Commercial flight tickets from Kabul now also cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, with nearly all sold out, and Wilson wrote that his team surveyed foreign embassies in Kabul and found virtually none are offering visas.Sgt. John Speikhout, a U.S. Army veteran from Three Oaks, Michigan, seen here during his service in Afghanistan, wrote a letter to support his Afghan colleague's visa application. He died by suicide in 2016.
For Truhn, it's hard to watch the war that ruined his brother's life now destroy those of the Afghans that Speikhout considered brothers.
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