EXCERPT:
AUSTIN: “We remember 2,461 American service members and personnel who paid the ultimate price in this war and more than 20,000 wounded Americans, some still carrying the scars that you can’t see on the outside. We also remember the thousands of American contractors who lost their lives, hundreds of our allies and partners from NATO and beyond, and tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers and police officers, and tens of thousands more Afghan civilians. Now, we have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in American history. It was heroic. It was historic."