Good day all. I always like happy stories, and I have a great one. This is about a former Afghan translator who was rescued, along with his family, from the clutches of the evil Taliban, and how they have been welcomed to America, no thanks to the Bumbles Dementia maladministration.
The translator has been settled in North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne Division, who he worked with. His three children have started school and the entire family have been warmly welcomed by all the locals. Here are the details from Fox News:
Three months ago, Zabiullah R., who served as a combat translator for the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan, did not know what would happen to him and his family after the U.S. military withdrawal.
Oh, I think I can guess what would have happened if the Taliban had found him, and it wouldn’t be good for him or his family.
Zabiullah, affectionately known by troops as Johnny, was able to escape Kabul in August, with the help of a U.S. senator, a private veterans group, and members of the 82nd Airborne. Johnny arrived with his family at his new North Carolina home back in October.
Today, his young daughters are already getting something they never would have received under the Taliban: an education.
“They’re happy and they’re excited,” said Johnny. “Every morning … 6 o’clock in the morning, my two daughters, they wake up and get ready … just come into my room and wake up us.”
Johnny says the girls even ask to go on weekends.
“I tell them, like ‘two days off, you have to stay home’,” said Johnny. “They keep asking, ‘We want to go to school, we like school. We have friends back school. We want to play with them. We want to meet them.'”
And to this I say Hooray!! These kids now have a great future ahead of them. Their desire to learn should be nourished and encouraged. Depending on where they choose to go, we might have some future scientists, engineers or doctors. Just dissuade them from becoming lawyers. *grin*
His daughters have been welcomed at their new school in Weddington, North Carolina, and embraced by the community, where many of the soldiers Johnny once served alongside now live.
Great! This means he and his wife have a network of people they can call in if they need some help.
Students and families at Rea View Elementary school waited in anticipation for Johnny, his wife, and his three girls with hand-made signs and greetings written in Dari.
“The moment they pulled up, it got to be so quiet like you could hear a pin drop. And the girls get out of the car, and they walked up, and, of course, they were smiling, beaming ear to ear,” recounted Jennifer Parker, principal at Rea View Elementary School. “And my families and kids just were waving and saying hello in their native language.”
They play soccer on the same team as the daughters of Sgt. Mike Verardo and his wife, Sarah.
Johnny served as a translator for Verardo, who lost his leg in Afghanistan’s Arghandab Valley in 2010 and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Mike has undergone more than 100 surgeries at Walter Reed after serving with the 508th Infantry Regiment, an airborne infantry regiment of the United States Army, first formed in October 1942 during World War II. Both Mike and Johnny each have three daughters.
Three daughters each? Oh the trouble I can see down the road, especially when they discover that most dreaded of creatures…teenage boys. These three young ladies are, to be honest, at the perfect age. They’re basically little sponges just waiting to have all sorts of information poured into them, including English. I suspect that in a year or so, they will all be fairly fluent, and in two to three years, bilingual with no accents in either their native language or English. I won’t be at all surprised if all three learn multiple languages, and since their father is a translator, I expect he’s going to encourage them.
Johnny says his daughters are embracing their newfound freedoms.
“A hijab … [Muzhdah] said, I’m not going to do that. I want to be more free. I’m going to live in freedom,” said Johnny.
And we have a man who has both earned his privilege of immigrating to America, and is fully on board with embracing our culture. I expect he and his Mrs. will throw the worst parts of their original couture into the trash, and import the best and add it to the Great American melting pot. Best of all, these young ladies won’t have to worry about being taken away and “Married” off when there are barely 11 years old, if not younger.
In the pictures in the Fox story, Mrs. Muzdah was wearing a scarf and some traditional cloths. She wasn’t in a hajib, and she probably feels more comfortable with the scarf on. I have no problem with that, and perhaps she might do without on nice days. That’s the good thing about being here, she has the choice and no one will bother her.
I expect that as soon as the family has met the qualifications, they’re all going to become naturalized citizens. The children will, of course, think of themselves as Americans in very short order, and I see great things for them down the road. Let’s give a hearty welcome to the latest immigrant family and make them welcome!
Thatisall
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