Military families welcome end of U.S. war in Afghanistan
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“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.”
