'Pain does not go away': Anger persists for family of U.S. Marine killed in Kabul

The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Caisson Platoon, Marines from the "The President?s Own" Marine Band, and Marines from the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. (8th and I) conduct military funeral honors with funeral escort for U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, U.S. September 24, 2021. U.S. ARMY/Elizabeth Fraser/Handout via REUTERS

The last text message Darin Taylor Hoover sent his mother from Kabul's airport a year ago was short but one she still reads every day.

"Mamma I'm safe, I love you," the 31-year-old Marine Corps staff sergeant wrote as he worked to keep some semblance of order while thousands of desperate Afghans tried to get on the last few evacuation flights.