Afghanistan veterans are experiencing renewed devastation over the loss of life, limb, mind, and faith as the 20-year war comes to an end.
United States military members watched over the weekend as a 20-year mission in Afghanistan crumbled within hours. On Monday, speaking to the American public from the White House, President Joe Biden stood firmly by his decision to withdraw troops from the country after the Taliban seized control of the capital. And now U.S. veterans are left wondering: What now?
Staff Sgt. Michael Simpson from San Antonio, Texas, was killed in Afghanistan in 2013 from injuries sustained by an improvised explosive device. Simpson was 30 years old when he died. "I don’t want today to diminish the value of yesterday — and yesterday it was valued. And if we allow that to happen, then it kind of gives another notch.""One hundred percent it was worth it," he said."Everyone can have their own opinion, but the facts are what they are. We haven't had an outside terror attack since 9/11. We brought people over here and gave them hope. The ones that were there, we gave them hope for a brighter future.
"The loss in my house is so ongoing and constant," she said, adding that she delivered the news to her husband last Thursday about what was unfolding in Afghanistan."I didn't want him to hear it from anyone but me. It was awful. He really cried.""It's heartbreaking," James Miervaldis, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, told TODAY."We have a moral obligation to our partners and allies. That includes preparation and planning — none of that was done.
"There no commercial flights," he explained."We don't know how they are identifying people to evacuate."
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