WASHINGTON — Tissue holders sit atop the conference table where the congressman’s aides field frantic requests from constituents desperate for help in getting friends and loved ones out of Afghanistan before it’s too late.
The stories have poured in by the thousands with heartbreaking pleas not to be left behind.
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