The arrest of a key figure in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan is a “big step,” but it’s only the start of a long process of bringing some solace after the deaths of 13 American service members, Darin Hoover, the Gold Star father of one of the victims, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, said Thursday on Newsmax.
“We’ve got many more to go after, but it brings us a little bit of solace that we were able to at least get this one,” Hoover said on “Wake Up America.” “[From] the overwhelming emotions that took us all over that afternoon when we were told, it’s a big step, but it’s a first step in where we’re going from here.”
Hoover, who said he has been in constant contact with President Donald Trump over the past few years but not with former President Joe Biden, added that Trump called the family, in a prearranged conversation, a few hours before his address to Congress to say that the suspect had been arrested.
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