We passed row after row of pristine white tombs, the dead of all the just wars and unjust wars that made and remade this country, and my relative told us he found it quite moving; he hadn’t been expecting that.
Perhaps he thought it’d be more bombastic, or obviously militaristic, and he was taken by the beauty and serenity and quiet dignity of the place.
The Marines were trying to manage the chaos of the poorly planned evacuation of Afghans from Kabul — a humanitarian mission at heart, trying to help those we were abandoning.
The blast killed the aid worker and his relatives, seven of whom were children.
The sort of people those Marines died trying to help.
Persons:
hadn’t, it’d, Nicole Gee, “, ”
Organizations:
Arlington National, Marine, Marines, ISIS
Locations:
Afghanistan, Arlington, Ireland, Kabul