Visa delayed for Afghan translator who helped Medal of Honor recipient
FoxNews.com
By Justin Fishel, Jennifer Griffin
Published August 12, 2013
Never leave a fallen comrade behind. That's the creed Sgt. Dakota Meyer -- later given the Medal of Honor for his actions -- was living by when he recovered four dead Americans in the Ganjgal Valley of Afghanistan during a deadly Taliban ambush.
And it's the creed he cites today as he speaks out to try to save the life of a friend and comrade trapped in Afghanistan.
An Afghan translator, who goes only by "Hafez" to protect his identity, fought alongside Meyer that day in September 2009 and has been waiting three years for a special visa that would allow him to live in the United States. Meyer fears that his application is being caught up in bureaucratic red tape and that if Hafez doesn't leave Afghanistan soon, he will be left behind.
Meyer says the Taliban has a target on Hafez's back, and that his life is in serious danger. The situation is made worse, Meyer says, by the fact that Hafez has been waiting for so long to get into the United States.
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