I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled in the early morning hours of August 31st Kabul time, with no further loss of American lives.
President Biden expresses gratitude to military commanders and personnel for the successful evacuation from Afghanistan.
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