Montgomery: Mike Spann, a Marine changed the CIA officer, felt the task to go to Afghanistan after the attack on September 11, 2001, attack.
On one of his last telephones called home to examine his children, he told his father that he hoped they would gather information to find the mastermind of the attack, Osama bin Laden, his father remembered.
Spann was killed a few days later, on November 25, 2001, during a prisoner’s rebellion in the fort where he had questioned extremists.
The 32-year-old CIA paramilitary officer from Winfield, Alabama, is the first of 2,448 American service members who will be killed in battle in Afghanistan.
Spann’s father said he was disgusted by the pictures of American withdrawal Monday that showed people, desperate to escape the takeover of Taliban, stick to the side of the military jet A.S.
departing.
“It made me sick of my stomach when I saw it.
Very disappointing.
Too bad, I think.
I think it’s embarrassing that we will do this,” said Johnny Spann.
Older spanns just lowered his grandson in Birmingham when he had to pull over and see the pictures on his cellphone after hearing it explained.
The scene of the people who fell on their deaths from the plane reminded him of the American who jumped from the World Trade Center towers, he said.
Spann said he did not oppose Americans who left Afghanistan but did not agree with time and how it was done.
With the takeover of the Taliban, his mind immediately went to Afghanistan who helped his son and other Americans.
“They will die.
They will kill them.
And how can someone stomach when we know we make them promise? Nobody tells how many people will disappear if those people don’t help us,” he said.
Mike Spann always seems destined for the military.
As a teenager, he has a marine flag plastered in the ceiling and walls.
During a family trip, he will always want to go with a military and landmark battlefield.
Near his graduation from Auburn University, he announced he joined the Marines, a decision questioned because he was a young husband.
“Daddy, I always want to be a marine.
If I don’t do it now, I will never have another chance,” his father remembered he said.
After the September 11 attacks, Mike Spann felt the task to go to Afghanistan even though the decision means leaving both of his daughters, babies and wives.
The war range can be measured in three children Spann, only young people when their father died but now grows.
In the years since his son’s death, Johnny Spann has become obsessed with studying details – tracking autopsy reports, photos and talking to people who work with his son in his last days.
He was also very critical of the decision with the withdrawal of President Joe Biden.
Most of his son’s work and the others have been canceled, he said, but it did not make their contributions meaningless.
“They help us keep America safe, and that’s what they do for 20 years.
They do their work.
They do what they should do.
They do what they are told.
But they don’t die in vain,” he said.
His son, he said, went to find bin Laden: “He died before we found Osama bin Laden, but I thought maybe some things he helped do that point.” Elder Spann warned people not to think that the threat to America had ended With withdrawals from Afghanistan.
“This war is not over.
We have just conceded the area we took,” he said.