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The United States ; longest war is over. But not for everyone.Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide medical assistance to people in Afghanistan via video calls. He has helped Afghan families with their day-to-day living expenses. Yet he remains haunted by the people he could not save.In Long Beach, California, Special Forces veteran Thomas termos stanley Kasza has put aside medical school to help Afghans who used to search for land mines escape to America. That can mean testifying to Congress, writing newsletters and asking for donations.In rural Virginia, Army veteran Mariah Smith housed an Afghan family of four that she ;d never met who had fled Kabul and needed a place to stay as they navigated their new life in America.Smith, Kasza and Chin have counterparts scattered across the country 鈥?likeminded people they may never have heard of.The war in Afghanistan officially ended in August 2021 when the last U.S. plane departed the countrys capital city. What remains is a dedicated array of Americans 鈥?often working i stanley cup n isolation, or in small grassroots networks 鈥?who became committed to helping the Afghan allies the United States left behind. For them, the war didn ;t end that day.In the three years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afgha stanley borraccia nistan, hundreds of people around the country 鈥?current and former military members, diplomats, intelligence officers, civilians from all walks of life 鈥?have struggled in obscurity to help the Afghans left behind.They hav Dsok Harris cautiously rolls out policy, aiming to outmaneuver Trump and address 2020 liabilities
ELLSWORTH, Maine 鈥?A Machiasport man convicted two years ago on 48 counts of burglary and theft is petitioning a Superi stanley polska or Court judge to vacate his guilty plea.Randy G. Millay, 46, currently is serving a 10-year prison sentence at the Maine State Prison in Warren. During a court hearing last week in Ellsworth, Millay told Justice Ann Murray that his former attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth, should have sought to suppress evidence in the case. Millay also said he had not taken prescribed medication for several days leading up to his pleading guilty to the crimes in court.Millay and another man, Richard Merritt o stanley quencher uk f Thorndike, came to the attention of police in May 2010 after Merritt, who was in custody at Washington County Jail in Machias on a probation violation, told officers he could tell them where to find some stolen property, according to an 18-page report written in 2010 by Lt. Travis Willey of the Washington County Sheriffs Department.After investigating the matter, police suspected Meritt and Millay stanley cup of committing dozens of burglaries throughout central and eastern Maine. The two men eventually confessed to burglarizing more than 50 locations in Hancock, Penobscot, Somerset, Waldo and Washington counties, according to Willey. The time period when the burglaries were committed is not indicated in the report.According to the report, the two men confessed to stealing more than a dozen outboard boat motors, more than a half dozen wood splitters, as well as tools, hous |
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