"Her children were scattered throughout the world, one still in Afghanistan. I asked, stupidly, if she wanted to ever return. No, no, she said. The Taliban."
"I've seen such horrors being in the military I've seen a man decapitated by a jet on the flight deck, participated in the evacuation of Kabul in 2021,I've built Jdams to be sent to Israel during their bombings of innocent people."
"I was in 5th grade that year. We did DARE and got to learn all the cool street names for drugs. For our DARE graduation right before Christmas break so like three months after the attacks, we had a ceremony in the evening for our parents to receive our DARE diplomas."