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Last Plane From Kabul 8/31/2021

September 1, 2021 – 4:35 pm

Yesterday the last US military transport jet lifted from Kabul airport packed to the brim with last-minute American departees. Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis hoped to join the exodus from the Taliban ruling Afghanistan. The new government had ordered its fighters to not shell the refugees, although an ISIS-K suicide bombing killed 90 civilians and […]

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A Red Line In The Afghan Sand

August 23, 2021 – 8:00 pm

Throughout April 1975 the NVA and Viet Cong drove the ARVN from every province. Troops threw away their uniforms. Artillery was abandoned on the road. M16s were tossed into rice paddies. It was Thân ai nấy lo or ‘Every man for himself’ and all combatants and civilians fled the countryside for Saigon hoping that the […]

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