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With both conveying my words and their intent, we became almost one person in a sense. zac also shares in the book, in his own words why he close to remain an interpreter after several of his colleagues quit because of the talibans attacks. quote, i thought someone has to take a chance for afghanistan. i was not in the afghan national army but i felt that by using my skills to help people trying to help afghanistan, i was serving my country and building our future. end quote. their story is one ...

Because of their work with the united states, potentially death. but interpreters like zac, when they get into the united states, one of the things were supposed to do is give them a green card, a path to permanent legal status in the united states. zacs story isnt over yet. as of april, his most recent visa application was rejected. so even after all that he has done for this country, and all that he has done to get to this country, his stay in the united states is still not guaranteed. zac and...

United states, if you so choose, and well stand with you just as you stood with us. >> that was a year ago last month. the war in afghanistan was the longest war in this nations history. the message that president biden was underlining there is a message america used to recruit afghan residents for more than a decade. if you risk your life to serve and protect our military, theres a home for you in america. a month after biden made that statement, both rachel and i had the honor to speak with th...

At the airport entry point, where they were again denied entry two days later, you can hear one of the kids crying in the background. and then finally, these photos with the caption, wheels up. todays an intense amount of lobbying and crowd sourcing to help zac and his family, they finally made it out. here are zac and major schueman this year reunited in the united states. now zac and major schuemans story is a true heroes story but it shouldnt have to be. a little over 18,000 people like zac a...

Wheels up was the caption on this photo of the afghan interpreter zac the day he finally got himself and his physical lay out of afghanistan last year after a heroic lean effort by major thomas schueman but there is so much more to the story in the brand new book "always faithful" a sorry in the war in afghanistan and the fall of kabul and the unshakeable bond between a marine and an interpreter. reading it you get a sense of how close these men became. tom, major schueman writes, quote, zac had...

>> it feels, you know, like i live life, and get out, you know, but our hope was to, to not be like that for that long, and my guess it would be guillotne, you know, because of brotherhood and always faithful, like, we wrote our book, we keep our promises. >> always faithful, wow. >> together right now. >> its amazing. and you put meat on the bones of this story for a lot of people. because at the time, there were a number of people like zac who were stuck there, and we didnt feel like we were d...

Diabetic but luckily he was alive. with the u.s. pulling out of afghanistan and his life more in immediate danger major schueman pulled out the stops to get him out. and he wrote letters for the visa applications and made calls and sent money to get bribes to get past checkpoints in kabul which was the only air base you could use to escape. major schuemans mom wrote letters to the white house to lobby for zac but none of the formal system that was supposed to work specifically for people like za...

It is actually now been reduced to 12 months, zac served for almost four years. theres, weve found supplemental documentation from that unit, we have that now as well. with that supplemental information, his last application was still denied. we put the appeal. in and were still waiting. so you can infer what you would from that process but it surely does not seem to work. >> in the spirit that it is intended. zak, when we last spoke to you, as i said, your face was covered, you were frightened,...

Carrying the search out and done in a clegele way, they didnt break the door down. so you know, the notion that this is carried out in some heavy-handed footprint is just, you know, some kind of febrile rubber room stuff that is being fed to the masses who support this president to create this kind of uproar. and it is causing what appears to be threats to the lives and families of law enforcement officers and department of justice officials. and thats something that the department and the fbi h...