Stephanie Mast
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Like we, we had legal standing and we were her.
Teenager.
So 18 months passes by, the teenage girl gets married to the son.
But we would say an adopted parent.
So, I mean, he's glossing over it. As you know, like that period of time, it was just, what he was doing was-
no i mean as a wife i will say heroic because it was around the clock there was a photo i took of him because he couldn't even take a shower without his phone just going off and he jumped out of the shower he's sitting on the floor wrapped up in a towel and i think at the time you're on the phone with the general and i just thought it was hilarious that here he is on the phone with the general can't even get a shower but it was just it was that high tempo i i think is one of the most incredible points of a 20-year war yeah i mean it was insane
So it ended up being, like he said, that we realized the plan quickly changed from him going. And I mean, he was literally, you were prepared. And I didn't know this after the fact that you wrote a video in case you died in the process of trying, because he was fully prepared to pull them over the wall. That was his plan.
I didn't realize at the time that was probably a good thing, but we end up, he's like, because we didn't know where in the world they were going to go. it was, there was no plan. It was just like, they were getting on a plane and then it was just a guessing game as to where they're going to go. So at the last minute, I had a nine month old baby at the time.
Uh, and I gave my baby to my sister and we're like, we were her adoptive parents. We've got to go.
We have all of her documents, everything to make sure that she comes to the United States, not some other country. Right.
And you.
It's wee hours of the morning. I'm like, where are you? And he sends me a video. He's like, you're never going to believe where I am. And I'm like, get out of there. You don't belong in there. And yeah, that was the first time any of this, like we realized.
You delayed it for 24 hours?
But I would touch on it in hindsight, even though it was devastating, losing her for not for her not coming home. And when she was supposed to in 2019, we had a crib. We had everything ready. We were ready to go. We thought she'd be handicapped child. We were anticipating taking in a baby with special needs and we were ready as much as we could be.
And then for that to be delayed for that period of time. But as a result, because of the fall and because of honestly how everything providentially was woven together the way it was, how many people personally... Let me rephrase that.
And it was. It was her. And when I was in the car, when you were on the phone with him on the ground, it was that moment. It was just so historic that he's sitting there talking to someone on the ground, pulling this grave through. For whatever reason, I had the instinct. I didn't want him to see me. I pull up my phone, and I record.
And so I actually recorded that conversation, not knowing any of that was going to happen, but recorded that conversation that he had with that Marine on the ground. and that pulled those 14 people through as a result. Have you met her parents yet? No, I have not.
But we've always, I mean, he can't, I mean, I've known him ever since he was a teenager, and he never cried. I could count on one hand how many times he cried, but since... This whole situation, especially Abbey Gate, he can never talk about without crying because you feel it so deeply. And what we saw there and the evacuation, I remember calling back home to family.
I was like, is this on the news? And they're like, no. And at the time, there was one Getty photographer and one CNN reporter. And it was historic. And I would echo what Joshua said. What the service members and the USO, what they were doing on the ground during the evacuation, it was heroic. Remarkable.
September 2021.
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