2001–2021 · Afghanistan · War
Afghanistan
America's longest war: twenty years in Afghanistan, begun weeks after the attacks of 11 September 2001.
2,461
United States dead
92,652
held on this memorial
How It Began
Al-Qaeda hijackers flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, killing two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people. The Taliban government in Afghanistan refused to surrender Osama bin Laden. American and allied forces began operations on 7 October. The last American aircraft left Kabul on 30 August 2021.
Men held here from this war
M
Matthew Barrett Judd
U.S. Army
Died 21 June 2014
M
Mark Willard Belloff
U.S. Army
Died 26 January 2021
J
John Michael Surwill
U.S. Army
Died 13 February 2004
J
John Raufmann
U.S. Marine Corps
Died 20 August 2019
All 92,652 of them →
In Our Keeping
Years
2001–2021
Fought at
Afghanistan
Kind
War
Held here
92,652 men and women
Stewarded by
NeuraWeb Global Inc.
Held by NeuraWeb Global Inc. and kept permanently.