Dover (US): US President Joe Biden met in the privacy of Khidmat Sunday with families of 13 US troops who were killed in a suicide attack near Kabul airport and became the fourth commander in the head testify when the remains fell back to us land from Afghanistan.
First Lady Jill Biden joined the president at Dover Air Force Long to grieve with loved ones because of “dignified transfers”, military rituals for those who were killed in foreign battles.
Dead ranges from the age of 20 to 31 years, and comes from California and Massachusetts and states between them.
They included a 20-year-old marine from Wyoming who had expected his first child in three weeks and a 22-year-old Navy force in his last facetime conversation with his mother convincing him that he would remain safe because “my friends understand.” Lima only 20, born not long before the September 11, 2001 attacks, which spurred the United States to attack Afghanistan to drop Al-Qaeda and dismantle their host who ruled the country.
At their death, 13 young service members were on the ground for Coda U.S.
For the longest war, helping the chaotic evacuation from America and Afghans who helped US war efforts and now escape the Taliban after they return to power.
“13 Service members that we lose are a hero who made the main sacrifice in the service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others,” Biden said in a statement on Saturday.
“Their courage and edge have allowed more than 117,000 people at risk of achieving safety so far.” Fallful family members traveled to Dover to be present when the flag transfer case was closed taken from a transportation plane that returned them to American land.
Apart from the command of the honorary guard who brought the transfer case, a short prayer from the pastor is usually the only word spoken during the ritual.
The latest three predecessors as presidents all attended such a dignified transfer.
It was the first time Biden took part in the ritual as president, but he had been here before.
Biden attended a dignified transfer for two US soldiers who were killed in a suicide explosion in Bagram Airffield in the last months of his vice-president in 2016.
In 2008, while a senator and at the request of a mourning family, he attended a soldier killed in the bombing Car in Iraq.
Biden told CBS ‘facing the nation “that he had to get permission from the Pentagon to attend the transfer.
13 troops who died in Kabul were members of the first US service died in Afghanistan since February 2020.
At that time when Trump’s administration reached an agreement with the Taliban calling for militant groups to stop attacks on US commitments to delete all American troops and contractors in May 2021.
Biden announced in April that he would have all the troops in September.
Eleven of the 13 Americans who were killed were Marines.
One of them is a navy sailor and one army soldier.