Rylee McCollum

“Welcome to the world my sweet baby I love you with my whole heart.”

In between, almost 2,500 U.S. troops have died in the conflict, most with far less attention than the two Wyoming men got.

More than $770,000 has been raised for a Wyoming Marine from the Jackson area who was among the last to die during America's involvement in Afghanistan.

The family of Rylee McCollum appeared on Fox News Tuesday Morning to speak about their boy and, in doing so, Rylee's father Jim revealed that he opted not to meet with President Biden.

Twenty-year-old Rylee McCollum was just a baby when the 9/11 attacks rocked the United States nearly 20 years ago.

The events that followed 13 members of our military has struck a chord across the country, but especially here in Wyoming with one of our own being taken away far too early at the age of twenty.

Few people would argue that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has ended well. But does that mean it was a mistake?

It's been one day, a little over 24 hours. In that time, more than $300,000 has been donated to the wife and unborn child of Rylee McCollum, the U.S. Marine from Wyoming who was killed in the suicide bombing terrorist attack that occurred in Afghanistan earlier this week.

Following the news of his death, many of Wyoming's leaders offered their condolences to the McCollum family, including Senator John Barrasso and Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Rylee McCollum, a Wyoming-born Marine, was one of the 13 U.S. soldiers who was killed in the suicide bombing at an Afghanistan airport in the country's capital of Kabul.