I was actually trying to console them, but at the same time, I just wanted them to get out as soon as possible so that no one from my family came back and saw them. I thought it appropriate that I be able to tell them.

Steve Nikoui

They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside providing security.

The way that The Taliban had pretty much infiltrated the whole country so fast, and we were kind of just, it seemed, left to just this one little airport, really concerned me, and the videos that we were getting and the pictures we were getting from Jim McCollum looked somewhat chaotic.

I blame my own military leaders, biden turned his back on him.

My wife and I felt very honored that [ since ] these other boys were n’t around their homes, that we were able to provide some sort of family life for them.