You know, a bar is a restaurant sometimes have a sign that says if you weren't born

before X year, you can't drink.

It's usually just the digits of the decisive year in huge typeface.

The other day, I was at a restaurant and noticed the sign said 2000.

2, 0, 0, 0.

I did some hasty arithmetic just to verify 2021 minus 2000.

Yeah, it trucks out.

It was the first time it really sunk in that there's an entire generation of young adults

who have only just heard about 9-11.

That video footage that looks old to us must look ancient to them.

Or even wilder, there are young adults serving in our ongoing war in Afghanistan who want

even born on September 11th, 2001.

And Biden has promised to end that war at the end of this month.

In the two decades since it began, the military has leaned on the expertise of thousands of

Afghan nationals who helped the United States fight Taliban insurgents on the ground.

They risked their lives alongside American service members.

The US government has resettled over 70,000 Afghans in America since 2008 through the

special immigrant visa program.

And in July, Congress eased restrictions to help move applications through the pipeline

faster.

But as the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban is quickly taking control and time

is running out to save the remaining interpreters from imprisonment, torture, or even death.

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