Aug 24, 2021
6 min read
I Want to Go Home.
A nameless Afghan man falls from a cargo plane heading to Qatar; a sparrow’s nest falls from a walnut tree next to the creek.
Another Afghan falls from the C-17 — Zaki Anwari, a teenager the whole world mourns because the media made him human. They named him. He was a real person. This young man was a soccer player. And now he’s not. He will never get to be anything now. Just because he fought to survive and the poor blessed soul…
