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Afghan translator expresses gratitude for daughters' education, first Thanksgiving in America
Nov 26, 2021 1 min, 9 secs
Johnny arrived with his family at his new North Carolina home back in October.   .

Johnny and his family inside Rea View Elementary.

(Courtesy of Sarah Verardo).

"They’re happy and they’re excited," said Johnny.

"I tell them, like 'two days off, you have to stay home'," said Johnny.

"They keep asking, 'We want to go to school, we like school.

Students and families at Rea View Elementary school waited in anticipation for Johnny, his wife, and his three girls with hand-made signs and greetings written in Dari.  .

(Courtesy of Sarah Verardo).

And the girls get out of the car, and they walked up, and, of course, they were smiling, beaming ear to ear," recounted Jennifer Parker, principal at Rea View Elementary School.

Mike Verardo and his wife, Sarah.   .

(Courtesy of Sarah Verardo).

"Seeing our six girls play together, six little girls whose dads served together, shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan, has healed all of our hearts a little bit more each day," said Sarah Verardo, Mike's wife and CEO of The Independence Fund and Co-Founder of Save our Allies

(Courtesy of Sarah Verardo)

They were so excited," said Johnny

And so, getting to come into school every day and learn, especially as a girl, they are just so excited and are little sponges," said Parker

"A hijab … [Muzhdah] said, I'm not going to do that

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