Gold Star families want National Mall memorial for service members killed in war on terror, decry delays

Gold Star families are demanding answers after their pleas to get a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial built on the National Mall appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

That was months before President Biden pulled all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31, ending the country's longest war; months before 13 U.S. service members were killed in an Aug. 26 explosion in Kabul; and months before the U.S. remembered those nearly 3,000 people who died 20 years ago in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Families say they still have not heard back about holding a hearing on the memorial's location and are now demanding answers. Jannie Taylor, a mother of seven from Utah whose husband was killed in 2018 in Afghanistan, sent her own letter to Grijalva asking about a hearing.  "We're sad. We're heartbroken. We're anguished. Now, we're kind of getting irritated," Taylor told Fox News in an interview. "…All we're really asking is: Can we let Congress vote on where to put this? Because we're confident that Congress will vote to put it on the Mall. Open the vote."