Marty Walsh: “When we split, half our group went to Mosul, half went to Kirkuk. We met with the city council and the mayor of Kirkuk.…”

“When we split, half our group went to Mosul, half went to Kirkuk. We met with the city council and the mayor of Kirkuk. The mayor spoke first, and the first thing he said in a very emotional way, he was a Kurd, he said, I want you to go back to the United States and tell the mothers and fathers of these soldiers that we are deeply grateful to them for the sacrifices their sons and daughters made to liberate us. I wanted to make sure that I delivered that message. It was repeated by Shiias, Turkimen and other Kurds who served on the city council.”