From my dad's death in Afghanistan 20 years ago to Taliban retaking the country. How did we get here?
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On Nov. 25, 2001, I was an infant when a group of Marines came to my family’s house to inform us that my father, Johnny “Mike” Spann, wasn’t coming home. He had been killed in Afghanistan.
The U.S. also turned its back on the Afghan allies that made our fight against the Taliban so effective in the first place.
I grew up alongside the conflict that claimed my dad’s life. In many ways, I know more about the war in Afghanistan than I do about him. I know him as an American hero, but my picture of him as a person is stitched together with fragments of stories passed down to me by my family and my dad’s colleagues.
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