


Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes demanded answers from President Joe Biden two years after the attack on the Kabul International Airport.
Reyes wrote to the president in a letter calling for Biden "to provide answers, transparency, and accountability where needed to give closure to the grieving Gold Star families and reassurance to the rest of the country that these lives were not sacrificed in vain." One of the 13 Americans killed in the bomb was fellow Utahn Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover.
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Two years ago today, at Kabul International Airport, we lost 13 heroes. The passage of time can often provide clarity, that has not been the case in the two years since this tragedy. Our Gold Star families need to be truly heard. We will never forget. Read my letter to @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/kM1d7YT5yr
— Sean Reyes (@SeanReyesUT) August 26, 2023
"These men and women represented the best America had to offer, and their deaths left a tremendous hole in our nation's collective soul," Reyes wrote. "In the two years since this incident, many of the families of the thirteen fallen service members do not feel like they have been heard or respected. These family members will always have deep wounds, but their losses are exacerbated by, what they rightly perceive, as a complete lack of accountability and justice."
The attorney general went so far as to insist that the president meet with the Gold Star families. Additionally, Reyes promised "thoughts and prayers are with you" as he makes life-and-death decisions with military personnel.
"The passage of time can often provide clarity, that has not been the case in the two years since this tragedy," Reyes wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Our Gold Star families need to be truly heard. We will never forget."
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Hoover was 31 when he was killed in the blast. He had served in the Marine Corps for more than 10 years at the time.
The family of Hoover has since begun a memorial in his name that provides scholarships and hosts a 5-kilometer race every year, with the next race coming up on Sept. 3. He was survived by his mother Kelly Barnett, and sisters Allyson Summers and Tori Manning.