“Welcome Home” Campaign Coverage – Long Beach Post
A group gathers at a home to watch a speech by President Joe Biden on the ending of the war in Afghanistan in Long Beach Tuesday, August 31, 2021. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.
From the article:
“A group of people watching the address on CNN in a backyard in Alamitos Heights cheered and applauded; it was the gathering’s first audible reaction to Biden’s speech, though there had been nods of agreement from the mostly quiet viewers.
They were members or friends of Military Families Speak Out, an organization of military families around the world who are opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and who have a loved one currently in the Armed Forces who has served in the military since 9/11 or who has died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“Welcome Home” Campaign Coverage – Long Beach Press-Telegram
Military families welcome end of U.S. war in Afghanistan
From the article:
“I was on the floor sobbing,” she said, “when I heard of the attack.”
On Tuesday, Aug. 31, however, Brunicardi received a temporary salve for her trauma. She and nine others – fellow military family members and an Air Force veteran who served during the war, all scarred by the last two decades of conflict – sat under an awning in a Long Beach backyard and listened to President Joe Biden say what they had longed to hear:
“My fellow Americans,” Biden said, “the war in Afghanistan is now over.”
