this is a huge, huge milestone and it -- if you are not paying attention to it, you should. and you should remember this day regardless of how you feel about it politically. where we go from here, after this, what we do from here is very, very important. a lot of things happened, whether you think it was mishandled. the exiting of afghanistan. whatever you think. but what's going to really matter the most now, we can't go back in time, is how we move forward with this and what we do with it. one minute before the stroke of midnight in afghanistan, the last u.s. military plane took off. >> i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate american citizens, third-country nationals, and vulnerable afghans. the last c-17 lifted off from hamid karzai international airport on august 30th this