The brother of a Marine killed during last year’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops and civilians from Afghanistan committed suicide last week, about a mile from a permanent memorial dedicated to the fallen service members lost in the attack, authorities confirmed.
Dakota Halverson, 28, was still struggling with the death of his brother Lance Capt. Kareem Nikoui and wanted to be with him again, according to his mother. Nikoui was one of 13 service members killed Aug. 26 during a suicide bombing at Kabul Airport.
“Dakota had been expressing some of the things that had been bothering him and one of those things was the loss of his brother Kareem and how he just wanted to be with him again,” his mother Shana Chappell wrote on social media Aug. 12. “He was still having a hard time believing he was actually gone.”…