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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   November will mark 20 years since his son, Johnny ‘Mike’ Spann, became the   
   first   
   known American to die during combat in Afghanistan   
      
   By Timothy Bella   
   Yesterday at 6:13 p.m. EDT   
      
   Johnny Spann had just dropped off his granddaughter at her school in   
   Birmingham,   
   Ala., on Monday when he grew so frustrated at the images on his cellphone that   
   he had to pull over to the side of the road. The 73-year-old watched in horror   
   as Afghans so desperate to escape the Taliban’s capture of their nation   
   plunged   
   to their deaths after trying to hold onto a U.S. military jet as it departed   
   Kabul.   
      
   The images from nearly 7,500 miles away — a scene, he said, that reminded   
   him of   
   Americans during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks who jumped to their   
   deaths from the World Trade Center — were an uncomfortable reminder for   
   Spann.   
   This November marks 20 years since his son, Johnny Micheal Spann, who went by   
   Mike, became the first known American to die during combat in the Afghan War.   
   Mike Spann, a 32-year-old CIA paramilitary officer from Winfield, Ala., was   
   killed during a Taliban prisoner uprising in northern Afghanistan.   
      
   So when President Biden said Monday that he was resolute in his decision to   
   close down a war effort that lost its way long ago, Johnny Spann was   
   heartbroken   
   and angered over the message, he said, and the president’s decision told   
   Americans: “We’ve been defeated.”   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/17/afghanistan-joh   
   ny-spann-taliban/   
      
   Biden told the American people the truth:  the U.S. *was* defeated.  We lost   
   before we ever started.   
      
   Sorry for this man's loss of his son, but he should have advised his son to   
   refuse to deploy.  Regrettably, the man's son died in vain, exactly the same as   
   58,000 American personnel in Vietnam.  Their lives were wasted for nothing.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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