From Kim Passoth
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LAS VEGAS (KVVU) – They are a couple caught in chaos. They have been part of a world for more than a year, but they will soon be together again.
Last week, FOX5 shared the story of a local Uber driver, born in Afghanistan who served as an interpreter for the U.S. military, who was desperately trying to get his wife out of the country.
Now he said he was comfortable showing his face and using his nickname “HK” knowing his wife made it safely.
“I heard from the US Embassy in Kuwait that my wife was in Kuwait … they made it. They are in. You are safe, ”said HK.
Since getting married a year ago, HK said he had unsuccessfully tried to get his wife a US visa and take her to Las Vegas, but the urgency escalated when the country fell to the Taliban in recent weeks.
“This is the ‘No Sleep Club’ that has gathered from across the country,” said Bryant Johnson.
Johnson, a Las Vegas business owner, met HK a few weeks ago. HK is a rider and picked him up from a business meeting at the Wynn and shared his desperate story.
“There are stories like this all around us if we take the time not to stereotype our fellow human beings,” said Johnson.
Johnson has been helping HK ever since that fateful encounter. Both are in an undisclosed location in the United States, a kind of command center where people with loved ones who are still in Afghanistan come together and do everything they can to help those who are still trapped in a country in chaos are.
Not only were they able to escape from HK’s wife.
“My buddy who served with me, Zack, in the same unit in Afghanistan, he, his pregnant wife and 18 month old baby with my brother-in-law, my wife and another interpreter’s wife who lives in Vegas, so I could Not only to save my wife, but also two other women, a baby and two men, ”said HK.
HK said he couldn’t wait for his wife to come to the US for the first time, start a new life and live the American dream.
“I’m going to take her down the strip in one ride and it has to be a drop top so she can see all the lights and stuff and we’re going to keep going from there,” said HK.
HK said he still has no date that his wife will arrive in Las Vegas. He doesn’t want to reveal exactly how they got her to the airport and on a flight, hoping to help more people.
He’ll stay at the command center for now, help translate, and try to get other people to know exactly what their families are going through.
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