Nearly all of the U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport attack were in their early 20s, meaning they had been just young children when U.S. forces first entered Afghanistan in 2001.
Marine Nicole Gee, 23, sent a series of texts to her sister before deploying to Afghanistan telling her not to worry - and saying she hoped the mission would be successful and safe.
The town of Berlin Heights Ohio rallied behind the family of fallen Navy hospital corpsman Max Soviak, who was among the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in Kabul on Thursday.
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