![]() “Our generation of Marines has been listening to the Iraq/Afghan vets tell their war stories for years. And just like that, she’s gone,” Mallory Harrison, another Camp Lejeune Marine and friend of Gee, said on social media. “Her last breath was taken doing what she loved-helping people-at (Hamid Karzai International Airport) in Afghanistan. The photo in the center of the memorial shows her holding a baby in Afghanistan, looking down at the small child. The memorial for Gee has an open bottle of Barefoot Pink Moscato wine and two cups with once-frozen drinks from Starbucks. Ryan Knauss, 23, was based at Fort Bragg. The soldier killed that day, Army Staff Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23, was based at Camp Lejeune. “I’m just trying to help them out, show them it’s OK to have feelings and emotions.” ![]() “It’s not really something we should be used to,” Huss said. Gee was one of the Marines killed in Thursday's bombing at the airport. Nicole Gee calms an infant during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. “We kind of got into the groove of not having that happen anymore, and I feel bad for these young Marines and spouses and sailors. She said her husband is an active duty Marine and this is her second time being based at Camp Lejeune. “My first time at Lejeune, these fences were flooded with all of these tarps and memorials,” said Kayla Huss as she knelt in the grass, adding more flowers to the growing shrine. People hung tarps and sheets from a fence along the road, listing the names of the dead and honoring those killed in action. More than 160 Afghan civilians also died in the attack at the gate to the airport where many had gathered to try to get on a flight out of the country to escape the Taliban. The photos, some blurred or a little grainy, each list the name of the Marines, one soldier and one sailor who died when a suicide bomber attacked the Kabul airport last week. Each one has a pair of boots, flowers, American flags, unopened beers and mementos surrounding a photograph. There are 13 memorials on the roadside, just feet from the busy highway leading up to the main gate at Camp Lejeune.
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