“My brother was my hero, and I know he is watching over my family in our time of grief.'
outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, started to emerge on Friday. Among them was a soon-to-be father, young men who always dreamed of serving in the military, and brothers who were viewed as heroes by their siblings.
Dozens of Afghan civilians were also killed in the suicide bombing that was believed to have been carried out by ISIS, US officials said. It was the most US service members killed by hostile forces in Afghanistan on a single day since 2011. The Department of Defense has not yet released the names of those killed in the attack, but family and friends have started to confirm their identities on social media and in news reports.Maxton “Max” Soviak was a Navy corpsman in his early 20s from Berlin Heights, Ohio.
His sister Marilyn described him as her “beautiful, intelligent, beat-to-the-sound of his own drum, annoying, charming baby brother,” in“Now he is gone and my family will never be the same,” she wrote. “There is a large Maxton sized hole that will never be filled.”