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We've been there. We understand what it's like to come from that experience and then find yourself dropped into this environment and how quite frankly overwhelming that it can be.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

He calls me his guardian angel, i just want to hug him.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

What we fear is that if our numbers are correct, if there's some 175,000 people, the SIVs, family members and the P1 and P2 applicants that were left behind, we estimate this could take the better part of the next 10 years. That's even if we can get them out alive.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

It feels like a fundamental betrayal, so many of us who were working this issue warned for years this was exactly what was going to happen and for the last several months have been pleading with the Biden administration to launch the evacuation they're now desperately trying to conceive now that the country has fallen.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I fear we're going to leave Afghanistan the way we left Bagram : in the middle of the night, without telling our Afghan friends.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

These are people we relied on, that we promised that we wouldn't leave them behind. And we've abandoned them through bureaucracy and through failing to have a plan to get them out. And they're being hunted. They're being hunted and murdered.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I'm now sitting here 20 years removed almost from the very event that propelled me into the military, which was the attacks of September 11, and now I'm wondering if the last 20 years were completely pointless and in vain.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I just basically asked anyone who would listen,' Will you help me ? I owe this person my life. I'm willing to do whatever it takes. I will cash in and call in whatever favor. I will owe whatever it is that I need to owe. Tell me what it is that I need to do to get you to help me,'.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 3 years ago

Starbucks, like we do, acknowledge their sacrifice and their effort is that of a veteran.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 7 years ago

There's people who die because they were forced by those organizations to flee before they could get their hands on them.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 7 years ago

The positive is in the last four years our organization has grown from an organization that started out in Washington D.C [...] to now having operations in eight cities across the United States on both coasts and in the heartland[s], in addition, we're opening up another three chapters this year.

– Matt Zeller

Found on CNN 7 years ago

I think the fact that random Americans, who weren’t even old enough to remember the reason we went to Afghanistan, can recognize the importance of us keeping out word to those who helped us, it gives me a lot of hope, the fact that the still know the importance of honoring our promises and the willingness of complete strangers to something like this says a lot.

– Matt Zeller