![]() “All right, we’re heroes now, man.”įamily friend Paul Arreola said the videos show “the heart of this young man, the love he has.” “Want to take a video together, buddy?” Nikoui said, leaning in to take a video of himself with the boy. In one clip, he asked a young boy to say hello. Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui, of Norco, California, sent videos to his family hours before he died, showing himself interacting with children in Afghanistan. Kim wrote that she remembered telling the friends to run the other way if they had to go in first and that both of them said, “If we die doing this, we die doing what we love.” LANCE CPL. Stone shared a note that his wife, Kim, sent to their son Eli Stone, who is also in the military and deployed elsewhere. Regi Stone, the father of one of Rylee McCollum’s friends, described McCollum as “a good kid,” who was resilient, smart and courageous. “We want to make sure that people know that these are the kids that are sacrificing themselves, and he’s got a family who loves him and a wife who loves him and a baby that he’ll never get to meet,” Cheyenne McCollum said. ![]() Another sister, Roice McCollum, told the Casper Star Tribune that her brother was on his first deployment when the evacuation in Afghanistan began. McCollum said her brother wanted to be a history teacher and a wrestling coach once he completed his service. Sometimes it would be with nothing on underneath, just a T-shirt.” … He’d carry around his toy rifle and wear his sister’s pink princess snow boots and he’d either be hunting or he was a Marine. She said her brother “was a Marine before he knew he was allowed to be a Marine. “He was so excited to be a dad, and he was going to be a great dad,” McCollum said. Rylee McCollum, a Marine and native of Bondurant, Wyoming, was married and his wife is expecting a baby in three weeks, his sister, Cheyenne McCollum, said. ![]() Marines killed in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, in Afghanistan, according to his sister, Roice McCollum. Rylee McCollum, of Bondurant, Wyo., was one of the U.S. 2019, photo provided by Regi Stone shows Eli Stone, left, and Rylee McCollum, at Christmas in Stone's house in Jackson, Wyo.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |