Kareem M Nikoui, 20
Nikoui was among 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. In one of the clips, he asked a young boy to say hello. Hours before he died, Nikoui sent videos to his family showing himself interacting with children. “Want to take a video together, buddy?” Nikoui said, leaning in to take a video of himself with the boy. “All right, we’re heroes now, man.”
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Sources: Times research, Defense Department, iCasualties.org
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