It was a year ago today that 13 American military service members made the ultimate sacrifice when they were killed by a suicide bomber terrorist at Abbey Gate, Kabul Airport, Afghanistan. In total, 11 U.S. Marines, one Navy corpsman and one Army.
to the community. and as a result of that, it is her mother s desire that she will be brought back to the city of lawrence as the hero she is. reporter: in addition to the 11 marines killed one army staff sergeant, 23-year-old ryan knauss, and one navy hospital man, 22-year-old maxton soviak, were also killed. the last time soviak spoke to his mother, she told him to be safe. the family said soviak s last words to her over facetime were, don t worry, mom. my guys got me. they won t let anything happen to me. his mother said she realized they all just went together. the tribute written about sergeant nicole gee by her friend also talked about the fact that some of the younger generation may have only served in on peaceful missions, that they ve heard a lot of war stories from iraq and afghanistan veterans, but may have felt somewhat removed from that. but until last thursday, that