Ranger’s ‘Digital Dunkirk’ rescue of stranded interpreters in Afghanistan
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September 17, 2021
Aug. 16: The text message from his former Afghan interpreter, a man he considers a brother, popped up on Sayre Payne’s smartphone at 2:43 p.m. ET, the day after Kabul, Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban. “I am about to die please help.” Seven…