Tag: Kabul
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From bootleggers to Marines: Pentilla Vodka starts in Boulder
Two active-duty Marines set to provide a high-quality vodka for a low price
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Hundreds honor fallen Wyoming Marine who died defending Kabul’s Abbey Gate
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — As clouds moved in to erase the Tetons on Saturday, two yellow school buses rolled into a Jackson Hole ranch carrying 60 young Marines fresh in from Camp Pendleton, Calif., to honor the “dumbest smart kid they had ever met.” Twenty-year-old Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, who grew up in nearby rural Bondurant…
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After narrow escape from Afghanistan, interpreter, family embark on journey to new home in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The interpreter slogged through human sewage up to his knees, two trips back and forth through steaming sludge, each time carrying two of his children on his shoulders. At the walled gate separating fear from freedom, he heaved them into the arms of his anxious…
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Polis announces new fund for Afghan evacuees coming to Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 1,500 Afghan refugees who are headed to Colorado in the next year to resettle after fleeing their country last month are going to need more than school supplies and a toothbrush when they get here. This week, Gov. Jared Polis announced the creation of…
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Marine’s wife gives birth to baby three weeks after his death in Afghanistan
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Levy Rylee Rose McCollum is just four days old but she’s carrying the weight of her father’s legacy on her tiny shoulders. Levy is the newborn daughter of Rylee McCollum, 20, who was one of…
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Colorado military veterans concerned as America’s longest war ends
America’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the resulting nearly 20-year military occupation of Afghanistan ended Aug. 30 when a final soldier boarded an aircraft, leaving Kabul and the country to the Taliban. In a 16-day period beginning Aug. 15, when the Taliban stormed into Kabul, taking control of the entire country, the U.S.…
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Mother, two daughters expected to return to Colorado Sunday after being stranded in Afghanistan
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After spending countless hours filling out paperwork and endless phone calls with the U.S. Department of State throughout the week, Denver resident and retired Army Col. Patrick Allen received some good news Saturday morning. Allen learned a Sheridan mother, Asma, and her two daughters —…
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Saplings of freedom planted in Afghanistan may be hard to completely uproot | Vince Bzdek
The United States, it appears this week, spent 20 years, a trillion dollars and the lives of over 2,300 of its soldiers, including 38 Coloradans, in a lost cause. With extraordinary swiftness, the Taliban have retaken Afghanistan in the last month now that the U.S. has pulled out most of our remaining troops. Our efforts…
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Watch: Afghans Run Alongside U.S. Military Plane At Kabul Airport
Afghans sprinted along the tarmac in an apparent attempt to prevent a U.S. military aircraft from taking off without them.