ns managing committee On Wednesday, a bill was passed unanimously to posthumously award congressional gold medals to 13 US service members killed in Kabul as they tried to help Americans and allies escape.
The House unanimously approved a companion bill earlier this month, and it is now on President Biden’s table, amid tensions with parents of deceased soldiers who say they have the blood of their children on their hands. . ,
In August, a suicide bombing outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport killed more than 170 people, including 11 sailors, an army man and a navy man.
The attack came amid a frenzied US withdrawal Afghanistan, where Taliban Captured Kabul and ISIS-K took responsibility.
They were mostly starting their careers in the service, ranging in age from 20–33 to Staff Sergeant. Darin Hoover, 31; Cpl Hunter Lopez, 22; Cpl Degan Page, 23; Cpl Humberto Sanchez, 22; Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, 20; Lance Cpl. David Espinoza, 20; Lance Cpl. Riley McCullum, 20; Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, 20; Lance Cpl. Karim Nikoi, 20; Sergeant Nicole G, 23; Sergeant Johanni Rosario Pichardo, 25; Navy Hospitalman Maxton Soviak, 22; and Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23.
The law says: ‘U.S. troops have gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect the citizens of the United States and our allies to ensure that they are kept in safety in an extremely dangerous situation as the Taliban invade Afghanistan. was brought. Control has been achieved.
A total of 2,352 American soldiers were killed in the two-decade Afghanistan War, known as Operation Enduring Freedom, less than the 66,000–69,999 Afghan soldiers who lost their lives in the war.
In August, a suicide bombing outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport killed more than 170 people, including 11 sailors, an army man and a navy man.
Biden attended the honorable transfer of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base, and later met with some of the families of the fallen.
The President was seen checking his watch several times throughout the ceremony.
He stood quietly, his right hand on his chest, as behind him were the flag-laden transfer coffins from a C-17 Globemaster plane.
But during the ceremony, Biden is seen flapping his left hand and looking down at his watch.
One Afghan injured another in suicide attack
Hundreds of people were seriously injured in the attack
13 US soldiers killed were helping Americans and allies escape after being taken under Taliban control
Some grieving parents were not happy to see him.
Kathy McCallum, the mother of a Marine killed in the attack, has spoken particularly harsh words for the president, calling him a “piece of crap with dementia.”
“My son was one of those Marines who died yesterday,” Kathy McCallum said in a radio interview with her 20-year-old son, Riley, on Friday.
,[He was] Getting ready to come home from Jordan with my wife to watch the birth of my son,’ McCullum said. ‘And that clumsy, crazy crap sent my son to die.’