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This Latino 'marine' was enlisted by his mother and died in Kabul. "I am proud," she says

2021-08-31T17:42:52.987Z


"Mommy, I want to be someone in life," Humberto Sánchez told his mother. He wore the Mexican flag tattooed and defended the United States in Afghanistan with his life.


The soldier Humberto Sánchez claimed his Latino identity with his own body: he had the Mexican flag tattooed on his chest and the words "Made in Mexico" on his ribs, according to his mother.

This young Marine was only 22 years old when he lost his life last Thursday along with 12 other US servicemen and almost 200 Afghan civilians in the terrorist attack by ISIS near the Kabul airport.

"

My son was 100% Mexican but he loved his country

, the United States," said Coral Briseño in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.

"He was proud to be American but, at the same time, he was proud to be Mexican," he added,

"he was proud of his roots, of eating tacos."

Sánchez, one of the six Hispanics who lost their lives in this attack, worked as a

security

marine

for the US embassy in Afghanistan and was assigned to monitor the evacuation at the airport.  

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The president, Joe Biden, met with the families of the soldiers who died when they received their bodies at Dover Air Force Base, just hours before the last military plane left the country and thus ended 20 years of war, the longest long that the United States has fought.

When Biden asked Briseño what he needed him to do for her, he responded emphatically: "

Bring all the soldiers back because I don't want anyone else to go through what I'm going

through right now."

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Although the last soldiers have left the country, more than a hundred Americans remain stranded in that country, waiting for the Taliban to let them out after being left behind during evacuations.

Last Monday was the last time that Briseño was able to speak with his son: "He told me: 'Mommy, I'm fine, I'm tired, I feel sick, I haven't been able to eat, I haven't slept […] They told us to sleep because we don't know what time we are going to bring them back. "

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"I told him to be aware, to be human, to never forget that there were good people in that place [...] that he had to do what he could to save the lives of those people, and he told me that he was doing his job "said the muker

Briseño said that she was the one who encouraged him to join the military when he was in high school.

"Do you want me to kill myself?" He joked.

Until one day, before graduating, he enlisted.

"Mommy,

I want you to be proud of me, I want to be someone in life,

" he told her.

And so it was: "

I am proud of the work she did

, proud to be her mother and to have raised a family man," Briseño said.

She would like her son to be remembered not only today or tomorrow, but always, as one of the last fallen in the war in Afghanistan.

A war that cost the United States more than 978,000 million dollars and in which more than 75,000 civilians died.

Source: telemundo

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