Gold Star Daughter Reacts To Taliban Take Over in Afghanistan: ‘We Won’t Have That Closure’
After watching the Taliban take over unfold in Afghanistan, Gold Star daughter Kelly McHugh-Stewart is not convinced other Gold Star families will get closure. CNN’s John Berman noted McHugh-Stewart’s father was killed…
After watching the Taliban take over unfold in Afghanistan, Gold Star daughter Kelly McHugh-Stewart is not convinced other Gold Star families will get closure.
CNN’s John Berman noted McHugh-Stewart’s father was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. He asked her, “What feelings have come up for you the last few days as you’ve watched Afghanistan fall?”
She called the scenes from Afghanistan “devastating,” adding, “To watch the Taliban walking on the streets where he was killed when 11 years ago we were told they were making headway and we were told that we would defeat the Taliban… to see how quickly that Afghanistan crumbled under the Taliban you kind of wonder, ‘What have we been doing for 20 years?'”
McHugh-Stewart reflected on her time spent trying to understand the war in Afghanistan, explaining, “I could never get answers. It always comes down to, ‘Your dad was a hero,’ and, ‘There’s meaning in his death.’ I totally believe that my dad sacrificed his life and my family sacrificed so much, but it’s difficult when there’s no answers there.”