A file photo of hundreds of people near a US Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. With just a few clicks on his phone from his home in New Jersey, Marcus started what would become an extraordinary operation to evacuate hundreds of terrified Afghans. — AP
ENGLEWOOD, United States: When Instagram influencer Tommy Marcus read that Kabul had fallen to the Taliban he sprang into action, without knowing that like-minded US veterans were also desperate to do something.
“I was more horrified and disgusted and just wanted to help,” recalls the 26-year-old New Yorker, who is known to his 800,000 followers as “Quentin Quarantino”.
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