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Congress honors 13 service members killed in Afghanistan as Harris catches heat
« on: September 11, 2024, 12:09:42 pm »
Congress honors 13 service members killed in Afghanistan as Harris catches heat
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Samantha-Jo Roth
September 10, 2024 4:21 pm
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Top leaders on Capitol Hill posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal on Tuesday, renewing scrutiny over the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the exit in the lead-up to the general election.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) opened the ceremony by apologizing to the families of the fallen.
 

“I know many of you have yet to hear these words, so I will say them — we are sorry,” Johnson said. “The United States government should have done everything to protect our troops. Those fallen and wounded at Abbey Gate deserved our best efforts.”


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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3149193/congress-honors-13-servicemembers-killed-afghanistan/
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Re: Congress honors 13 service members killed in Afghanistan as Harris catches heat
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2024, 12:14:22 pm »
On my two deployments to the South China Sea, we probably lost near 12 people - 6 when we shot down one of our own helicopters but none of them receiving anything special from Congress.  Gee, I wonder what the difference is? :whistle:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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