This Afghan family fled Kabul. A Virginia military network gave them a new home – By Sarah Sicard (Military Times) / Aug 25 2021
On an oak-lined cul-de-sac in Woodbridge, Virginia, sits an unassuming, two-story brick house with beige siding. Underneath, there is a modest one-bedroom apartment. It is now the home of Ramin Sharifi, an Afghan refugee and former contractor who, on August 16, fled Kabul to come here with his wife and young son.
In the driveway, a U-Haul filled with second-hand furniture has been cleared out, and what was this morning an empty basement, is beginning to look like a home
“Where is the coffee machine? We need to get them some coffee,” calls Air Force Col. Jennifer Reeves from the side yard. “I know we packed it somewhere.”
Reeves, 51, and her husband Larry, a 54-year-old retired Army colonel, have been working all week to secure a home’s worth of goods to welcome Sharifi, his wife, and their 4-year-old son to America.
