A Dad-to-Be, a 'Brave Young Man' and 'the Most Patriotic Kid': The 13 Service Members Killed in Afghanistan
Young men and women from across the country — California, Ohio, Texas, Wyoming — are among those killedin the attack outside the Afghanistan capital airporton Thursday that left 13 U.S. service members and scores more civilians dead. In a White House speech Thursday after the attack, PresidentJoe Bidenpraised the service members who were safeguarding ongoing evacuation operations in Kabul amid the U.S. withdrawal. He called them “heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others....