Afghan baby saved by Marine now lives in Arizona

A baby who was saved by a Marine at the Kabul Airport is now recovering in Arizona and her parents describe how they escaped the Taliban in an emotional interview.

[@JHulse29]

"The only thing I trusted was that he was a marine" Amen brother!

[@JTFSIX]

Semper Fi Brother.

[@nielspemberton59]

Good job Marine !

[@tacticalpause3767]

Errrrrrrraaaaasssss

[@hansmedja2774]

Ofcourse when they are bringing democracy. Funny. Sickening United state

[@gerryburntwood9617]

@samgriess438racist lies!

[@deplorablenation111]

I'm so glad they were rescued and reunited with the baby. He's definitely someone I'm proud to call a fellow American. He's brave and loves his baby beyond his needs. Much respect to father and the Marine

[@fusemore1059]

He is not an will never be a true American and neither will his wife or baby

[@callmesana]

him and his family are afghan and will always be an afghan.

[@callmesana]

@@dadadi944 no afghan should call themselves "american" after how america gave false hopes for 20 years, killed millions of afghan civilians and at the end left, and now sanctioning us too. which is only hurting our poor civilians.

[@modernskyn]

@@callmesana And I’m assuming you’re a Native American 😒 I’m sure you come from ancestors were foreigners too. Remember, Alexander Hamilton was a foreigner that did more than today’s Americans would do.

[@callmesana]

@@modernskyn i’m afghan. and we rather die than to be known as the same people who destroyed middle east and afghanistan for 20 years, giving us false hopes then at the end leaving and sanctioning our country just to victimize themselves. 🤡

[@five-dimeroppenheimer4221]

“I could trust him, because he is a marine.”

[@GM8101PHX]

Nothing else needs to be said, I choked up hearing that!!

[@CaliKiwi-]

@@GM8101PHX same!!

[@jetta2134]

" He is a Marine, and I trust him" are such awesome words! God Bless you, Marine and your family for being there!

[@kisalei]

that young mother's determination and sheer grit getting her baby thru that chaos to her husband who was waiting for them next to the wall with the marines (some ppl miss the details) is mind blowing💯😭

[@photonicemitter9227]

her father handed her over to that marine. But of course you forget to mention that right ? only mothers matter... It is so simple to say Those young parents...

[@HadassaMoon144]

No, the mother was in the crowd with the baby. The father was holding the legs of the marine who pulled the baby over the wire. The mother had to fight the crowd!

[@kisalei]

@@HadassaMoon144 precisely, thank you

[@juicyjules7409]

Yes look at angel 😇 baby cutest n mine 😂💕💕😇😇😇😇🎶

[@1midnightfish]

Barefoot. And two weeks after a difficult birth...

[@eskie7162]

A father and a Marine, giving this child freedom😢….so happy their family is reunited

[@galeria181]

I’m not an America but something that I admire about you is your capacity to help others. In the worst moments you know what to do. Please keep helping others.

[@bombaybeach208]

And yet we get nothing but dumped on and called racist.

[@whooah]

@@bombaybeach208 I know!

[@infoworld7706]

it is the American who cause the Afghan problem

[@Lspixel]

while 250k disabled kids because of the war on afgh , they just want to show good things , leaked video in yemen is the best example , rhey shot at a car with children in it, while laughing . what kind of creature can do that

[@dezznutz3743]

@@Lspixel A few bad apples can spoil the bushel, which is why America tries to keep its own accountable. We are failing at accountability, but we still help when you are in need.

[@tomcat5151]

"I was inside and I had somebody to pull my daughter over the wires. There were thousands and thousands that didn't even have that opportunity" "I will tell her she has to realize that, although it might have been traumatic, she's been given an opportunity. An opportunity that a lot of kids on the other side of the fence didn't get. So she has to live up to that." What an amazing man. Grateful and humble. Sees beyond himself. Incredible

[@hansmedja2774]

If they not going there. If nothing will be like that what the fuck United state going do there ? How many they killed. Now they show one image to change mind of people. To forget what they are doing there

[@sharondanya]

Im literally crying over this... and i never cry over anything on tv

[@tomcat5151]

@@biancahotca3244 perception is crazy. I didn't see it like that at all.

[@rocker76m88]

Words that America's youth need to hear. They have become ungrateful for the freedoms they have in this country.

[@lovelana3595]

Beautiful 🤍💧

[@cheriebrooks3565]

That "marine lifting the baby" scene gets me emotional every time I see it So happy for the reunited family. ❤❤❤

[@sandrasnow3569]

That picture makes me teary eyed every time I see it. Just imagining the emotions of the parents of that sweet baby during that time breaks my heart. I'm so glad to see that they were reunited and are safe.

[@LLace]

Same here , I’m glad they’re in the US safe and harm-free .

[@sudmuck]

Some morons on here think they would have been better off with the Taliban.@@LLace

[@vickythefist7062]

Loved it when he said he knew a marine would take care of her

[@anthonyzamudio7741]

This story brings tears to my eyes. Welcome home folks. To new beginnings. 🥂

[@linnerellie209]

They are not home this is our home

[@Marleyana1]

@@linnerellie209 are you God?

[@linnerellie209]

@@Marleyana1 No, god was a man. Second this is not their home. They don't belong here they have their own country they should be fighting for. Over 100k of them came here and over 99% of them came based on lies they told. They can leave now

[@jamesstack7237]

@@linnerellie209 It's a good thing you don't make policies and nobody gives a shit about what you think.

[@sdimanstein4404]

@@linnerellie209 this man has worked with our great soldiers...he deserve to live with his beautiful family in this country. And if you don't listen carefully - he already got a job...he's working and paying his taxes...so don't worry...his family doesn't spend your money.

[@nopenope9118]

What a beautiful family, his wife is gorgeous! I’m so glad they’re able to live safely in the US. All those who helped as translators and assisted the US troops abroad should be allowed to come here and live safely. They’re true patriots.

[@ronkali5365]

And what about our homeless vets on the streets begging ?

[@riggs20]

@@ronkali5365 Can’t we help both?

[@ronkali5365]

@@riggs20 They don't care about our vets or they too will have place to live just like the afghans

[@fusemore1059]

@@riggs20 the issue is that we don’t! We help literally everyone else first.

[@daniellesmith6853]

@@ronkali5365 Resources for vets aren’t their whether this story happened or not. Stop pretending like one is causing or affecting the other. That’s a lie.

[@friendofgod9413]

Feel like crying the tears of joy when I see this baby finally settled with her parents.

[@skateata1]

Less than a month old and she was handed over a sharp fence to strangers. She is gonna be a legend.

[@wendy3437]

He trusted the marine because they made a promise. Welcome to America thank you for helping us so glad you are safe. I hope your daughter can reach her full potential here.

[@jb-vb8un]

and Crown Thy good with Brotherhnd from Sea to shining Sea

[@nillyk5671]

Blah blah

[@kiabtoomlauj6249]

My nephew has just returned from his deployment to Japan, as a US Marine. And I have a niece who is currently an officer in the Navy, in San Diego, where she grew up. (She was born in the East Coast, when her father, before her, was in the Navy & was rotated there, from San Diego, where he married my sister.) My sisters and I were a product of a historical situation somewhat similar to this, in the mid 1970s. We had to cross the Maekong River, when the American WW2 surplus light M1 carbines given to him and 30,000 other of my hill tribe... no longer were able to win the Vietnam War against a much larger, Russian-Chinese Communist supplied North Vietnamese. My two sisters whose son & daughter having been or still is a part of the US Armed Forces came to the US as small toddlers. (The one whose eldest daughter currently is a US Naval officer was born in a Thai refugee came, in the lat 1970s, and she came to the US just a few months older than this Afghan baby here...We have been in the US close to 45 years...) There are many things not working well with our US government; and there are many very selfish, hateful people, here in the US and all around the world. (BTW, when we first arrived, mist to late 1970s, it's CONSERVATIVE Republicans who were the most welcoming Americans; times have changed a bit the last 40+ years! Today, 2023, the GOP is full of angry Whites, as they converged with all the KKKs, the Proud Boys, the Neo Nazis, the White Aryan Brotherhood types, and the delusional Christian types...) In any event... the US government and MOST of the American people are decent, liberty & freedom loving people; both institutions and people TRY THEIR HARDEST to welcome those they've promised to help who have fought & who have died alongside American soldiers, in battlefields all over the world, across many generations...

[@jryecart8017]

@@kiabtoomlauj6249 Best Wishes to all the family from USS LEXINGTON CV-16

[@jryecart8017]

@@kiabtoomlauj6249 agree with you about CONSERVATIVE Republicans - - - Flashback: Jerry Brown, Biden and other Dems refused to accept Vietnamese refugees - - January 30, 2017 Some liberal Democrats are fighting back tears when discussing President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslims from seven nations. But in 1975, leftist Dems went to great lengths to keep Vietnamese refugees (even orphans) out of the United States. During his first stint as governor, Jerry Brown fought to stop Vietnamese refugees from being delivered to California. /AP Trump issued the order, the White House said, so that a better system to vet refugees coming from those nations can be put into place. The Democrat complaints in 1975 appeared to center on the fact that the refugees were escaping communism, an ideology, analysts say, liberals did not find that objectionable. Leading the effort to ban the Vietnamese refugees was California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. Other prominent Democrats calling for the ban were Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential “peace candidate” George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. Julia Taft, who in 1975 headed up President Gerald Ford’s Inter-agency Task Force on Indochinese refugee resettlement, told author Larry Engelmann in his book, “Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam” that “the new governor of California, Jerry Brown, was very concerned about refugees settling in his state.”

[@night209999]

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus The Poem on the Statue of Liberty

[@maryannedelaney]

She is gorgeous! I’m so happy and shocked that she found her real mom and dad.

[@mexicasoldier8364]

Amazing and inspirational story. God bless you and your family. Welcome home brother!

[@JaimeCarrillo-uu9jy]

He came with nothing, but he actually came with everything; his family.

[@JaVi-wf1gl]

This was soooo heartbreaking to watch! All those poor people who’ve gotten killed and others who are still there. Feel so bad for the women and girls left behind! ❤

[@cldr9210]

I personally want to (Thank the young man and his wife/child) for helping our military 🪖 . 🙏 stay safe, stay strong and welcome to America 🇺🇸🙏 such a beautiful baby 🍼

[@m.travishussey8728]

Welcome to the United States!! Glad you three are here and Thank You for helping the United States Servicemwmbers stationed in Afghanistan.

[@linnerellie209]

Just remember over 100k of them here less then 1% even helped our military. He probably never worked for our military

[@Marleyana1]

@@linnerellie209 you probably didn’t work for anything

[@linnerellie209]

@@Marleyana1 I never worked for anything? I grew up poor and homeless. A victim of abuse most of my life. I worked my ass off as a teen so that my mother didn't have to work so hard. When I turned 17 she joined the military and dedicated 23 years of her life. As a teen I worked my ass off for everything I have today so do me a favor and save your bullshit

[@thedragodile545]

@@linnerellie209 you save the bullshit. Everyone struggles, but being vile to refugees isn't the flex you think it is

[@pattyespinoza1217]

@@linnerellie209 did you not hear that he was working behind the bob wire with the Marines and the baby was handed to him??? Geez

[@Sublime_37]

Praise God. 🙏🏽 I saw this story of the horrific collapse of a withdrawal not long after I gave birth, and I was really broken up. I remember praying that the baby would be adopted by a God fearing home, and to see the baby with her parents is such a blessing.

[@alimungirimohamed8034]

It's very emotional especially when the marine got the baby up give it to dad from dad to another marine, the third marine holds the baby like a diamond with a lots of love and care as if they had won a trophy. Thank you for helping the family out of devil island although not all afghanis are bad. Salute to all good solder.

[@lovealways5091]

I was just thinking about this baby. I'm so happy the baby and her mom made it to America. God bless them and the ones left behind in Afghanistan.

[@acedup00]

What a joke!!! That baby wouldn’t have to be saved from nothing if it wasn’t for America’s bombs, murder and turture.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I would adopt a little girl from Afghanistan. In a heartbeat.

[@phoenixrising8640]

We have our own people who adopt our own children😊. Tell your US terrorist government to drop their evil sanctions on us, give back our assets they stole, pay the reparation they owe us and then to go to hell and stop interfering in our internal affairs with the intent of delaying our progress. Only mutually respectful diplomatic and trade relations are on the table and nothing else.

[@IaneHowe]

Thanks for his service and help to people he didn't know and that one of us was able to help his family in return.

[@gdaygday1209]

Such a beautiful family, and I hope that they have many years of health, happiness, and safety.❤

[@asafaust8869]

I wish them the very best. So happy they have their baby back. 😢

[@me-ro1me]

I was shedding tears watching this, this little girl is beautiful and she deserves a peaceful life and like her father said she is lucky to be safe and alive and he is going to teach her to be thankful for the gift that was given to her ! And yes the USA should be helping these people they help the American soldiers and the USA shouldn’t go back on its word

[@laurapuja7193]

Így van! 💮🌼🏵️☺️ Üdv.: Laura 🐦

[@mirjamkohler263]

Thank God they are safe!❤❤❤

[@linneymlabrador]

For the parents rip off their heart and give away their daughter to live it’s a hard decision, an act of pure love

[@SalvationbyGraceAlone]

Glad to finally hear the good news of the baby's family being reunited!🙏💕💖 God bless the family and the kind hearted marine. 🎉

[@sheenablueeyesblondie2363]

What a beautiful family and such a heart touching story.i hope he reunites with the soldier that helped with his little beauty...may God watch over them always ❤

[@soldier-Dave]

A lovely family! I wish you all happiness and good health!

[@s0fa274]

I think everyone’s heart sank when they saw that, I know mine did. God bless this family ❤

[@laurapuja7193]

Mindörökké, ámen! ☺️🏵️🌼💮☀️🗽 Üdv.: Laura 🐦

[@awkwardathena434]

What a beautiful family. I hope they get to reunite with the marine who helped save their family and gave them a second chance. Wishing them all the happiness and success in the world.

[@laurapuja7193]

"èn is" ☺️🏵️🌼💮 Üdv.: Laura 🐦

[@Athena124]

His wife looks very young. Glad everyone is safe.

[@luxgreen1277]

Thank you so much for covering so well!

[@aikohikari6587]

I am sure those parents will raise their daughter to be a grateful adult. She will be enjoying life, while not taking everything for granted. And I am sure she will help other people when they are struggeling. I wish that family all the best. And hopefully they‘ll find the marine. I was literally crying and thanking him in my thoughts. God bless him. He is probably a dad himself.

[@jetta2134]

I agree with you! People here are blaming the youth for not being patriotic or appreciative of America! It's the parents who are the first teachers of their kids,! You teach to eat and walk, dress but some people teach their kids to hate from the neighbor to religion to the country they live in because they don't get their way.! I wonder how many people celebrate the 4th of July and teach their kids what the day means!

[@Susan.I]

Thank God this family is all safe!

[@loveislove-le5nj]

I'm so thankful the baby will have a better life!

[@rmac5395]

HOW DID I MISS THIS????? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ God bless this BEAUTIFUL family. I am SO SO SO HAPPY to hear this baby, wife, and husband are safe.

[@GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author]

I remember this, and I remember praying for that baby and others who were trying to get out.

[@Red-ct6wx]

Tears of joy, Peace and Blessing’s to your Family ✝️

[@michellek479]

God bless you and God help the people of Afghanistan.

[@rncine]

Watching this true story it pains me to hear about all the innocent lives left behind. I’m disgusted about a certain government pulling out of this country and leaving them defenseless!

[@gregcooper7789]

I am so thankful to see this family is safe, the world watched and worried about this child along with all left behind. God Bless and be with them All!!!

[@carolstarnes5048]

Those marines are heroes lifting up that baby to safety beautiful baby they will have a story to tell her

[@jennag4541]

Wow this is beautiful. I hope your daughter can grow up and thrive and be the best versions of you both. What courage it takes to do what you did and give your baby up to strangers so she could have better. God bless

[@nicoleyoshihara4011]

God Bless them and the man who saved the baby! So happy for the baby!🥰🙏❤

[@superguy6892]

However much war and politics suck overall, I hope the soldiers hold on tight to the fact they helped everyone they could help while they were where they were.

[@BelligerentBrit]

Its a sad and bittersweet way to end it in Afghanistan, I feel especially for lads like my brother who fought to free that sorry country in the first place only to see it return to square one.

[@myadorablefosters]

We weren't really there trying to free them, you guys. We were there because that's where al qaeda hid after they attacked us. It was good that we tried to help them too, but it was really to destroy al qaeda and get bin laden, which we did, so all who fought can hold onto eradicating the terrorists that killed a few thousand people in one single morning and making the world a safer, better place.

[@thornados4969]

Life is precious.

[@marybourgeois5235]

SHES BEAUTIFULLLLLLLL!!!!! So happy your safe.......

[@houndlover870]

I'm so glad they got out with their daughter.

[@Sandra2972]

This is so emocional. God blessed this beautiful family❤

[@patelvidhi]

I am glad that baby girl and her family is fine,healthy,happy and together. This id that baby girl's luck that het family is unharmed. God bless to marine who saved this family..🙏🙏😊😊

[@rubymckinley4909]

Beautiful family, tough baby girl.

[@arizonalady7569]

Yay!!!!! Raise her right that beautiful baby!!!!

[@msibocharity4300]

At least the baby responded so many people's to settle . she's indeed a hero we saw what people we're going through.

[@droman752]

Beautiful report. I wish there were more like this.

[@pinkcloud8182]

mashaAllah what a beautiful family! i'm so glad leah jan is safe with her parents. my parents are afghan refugees as well but they came in the 90s. we still have so many family members in afghanistan who we talk to every day and i desperately wish and pray their situation will improve. but even they are luckier than all those who don't even have relatives to send them money and support. inshaAllah afghanistan sees peace and prosperity in our lifetimes 😞

[@ElizabethT45]

When he said that he handed the baby to a stranger but knew a fellow Marine would keep her safe - oof, my heart. This is all such a miracle. Something about the nurse ripping her pink scrubs to fashion a onesie put a lump in my throat.

[@katieirish5765]

Good luck to this family and God bless them. Please God help the people of Afghanistan.

[@lapitufitaazul]

Thanks be to God for this!! May the women & children of Afghanistan be free one day. 🙏 😔🥹😭💔

[@heathermunoz6282]

I can't imagine. I wish many people here in America understood what freedom really means.

[@lisa6894]

What a beautiful story...such a brave young family. So happy they are safe in America..God bless that Marine.

[@LeL-q9e]

History repeats itself every few decades. The images of the Afghans trying to escape the chaos of their country bears similarities to the desperation the Vietnamese felt had during the fall of Saigon in 1975. With the advancing vietcong in Saigon and the Taliban in Afghanistan people rushed to be saved by the Americans. To have sacrificed so many US troops, not to mention the cost and then abandon the country is a disgrace. Glad this baby is safe and the family is doing well.

[@kmastanz]

That's right you can trust a Marine 100%❤

[@babsfocker7751]

Welcome to America, I hope you find peace and comfort

[@childofthe50s53]

Makes me so sad to think about current conditions in Afghanistan for women. Very glad this family survived

[@JRN007]

This is one of my favorite great ending stories ever. Welcome to AZ!! ❤

[@LLace]

God bless this baby , Amen ☝🏻🙏🏻🧎🏻‍♀️

[@ireneporter999]

Bless this family, i hope they find the amazing marine who helped then.xx

[@love_wins_2218]

Welcome to the US! I am so glad you and your family made it out alive. I am so glad you are here. Prayers and hugs! ♥️🙏

[@crystalfulton7684]

A beautiful baby and family.

[@brendagailwellborn3513]

This right here is a absolutely beautiful and amazing story and I want to give a shout out to the marines who helped pulled that baby over the fence and took her to safety. I am also happy that mom and dad also made it out of that horrible and treacherous Afghanistan from the Taliban. Praise the most high.

[@alanroberts6663]

God Bless all involved. Trust he had for another Marine is Glorious.

[@marshachesbro5969]

Beautiful family 😊.

[@vanessaplante4209]

God bless 🙏 the Marines God bless everyone trying to help and still assisting May God grant you'll peace 🙏❤

[@DebSherr]

Money, gold, and possessions can be acquired. The greatest wealth is family. They were returned, and that's priceless.

[@cz2055]

This story made me bawl! Thank you yo everyone who saved them and helped them! Please don't forget about the others who still, 2 years later (2023), need our help!🙏

[@lokidedbeat1878]

while innocent women and children were raped and killed by your terrorist racist american soldiers. innocent little shot in the head by american snipers. afghanistan didnt do 9/11. afghanistan is known for the ending of empires. soviets the british all fell to their knees when the attacked the afghanistan for no reason just so they can rape the women and children, and steal their natural resources oil.

[@colleenhardy340]

What an amazing story they all survived that dangerous situation. Only God’s intervention could have brought such a wonderful outcome. 🙏🇦🇺

[@jenniferrevilla5298]

Lovely family, so blessed! Their story would make a wonderful movie, full of great ethics. Great reporters too.

[@arjunkc3227]

‘The only thing I knew was he was a marine’ awesome words. My family is in marine proud of you guys.

[@tarvitsenapua]

what we've done in the middle east is endlessly tragic

[@Songsthesecond]

You didn’t do anything

[@deborahpensa5211]

God performed a miracle that day and the marine was part of it. May He bless you and your family as you start a new life here. And may He get your relatives and friends safely out of Afghanistan .

[@tewaewae]

god had nothing to do with it. human decency did. this whole shit show was a struggle over whose way of worshiping the same god is better

[@janetgeller7272]

Thank you to the gentleman for his service keeping our troops safe. What a beautiful family. “That’s my daughter!” he yelled in uniform from above. The up stretched arms of the man in the crowd as well who handed up the baby. The father holding the marine’s leg to secure him as he reached low for his daughter so he wouldn’t fall in doing so. I imagine the story of getting his wife through and into safety was equally if not more harrowing. I hope they are by now able to have their own home and doing well as he continues to assist with translation. Hoping his extended family can somehow leave as well. My compliments to those in the after interview studio discussion. They were professional as well as warm, feeling humans able to access their humanity genuinely despite being on air.

[@tyirazoller3442]

Omg she is so beautiful 💗

[@Cprl.MendozaJeremiah-p3b]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ God Bless those whom Serve

[@sissy9393]

This is the real parents?? Oh thank God!

[@01jbeals]

Absolutely beautiful family. I am so happy they are here ❤

[@jh4803]

Blessed.. I hope the marine who helped the little angel come forward. God bless the USA and our troops.

[@kathybailey436]

It's a miracle this man got out when so many like him didn't.

[@1spankytc]

Ohhhh thought she was just given to Americans so awesome congratulations on baby

[@aftersexhighfives]

Good wife's eyes are so haunted. I hope they have their light back now with time. You're all safe. I hope you're well and happy. I know that dad didn't fail his family and is working hard providing. ❤

[@anneliedorman2435]

What a precious child god bless the Couple giving this beautiful child

[@Stevie-hn7mp]

Absolutely this is best possible outcome . So glad he was able to save his daughter. Thanks to a Marine . ♥️♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@nazokatisamova5073]

Can I just say how beautiful Saadia the mother is. Just happy she and her daughter is safe

[@paulloke167]

Hameed, this is Paul, I'm sorry if my comment about the age of your wife if it sounded evil but I was in hurry, the reason I asked was because I could not believe how much that she looks like one of my daughters, my daughter is 30 now. On behalf of myself and family, we welcome you and your family, Thank You again.

[@user-hv9jc5yp6c]

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