Khizr Khan’s words are as powerful and true today as they were 9 years ago.

Khizr Khan’s words are as powerful and true today as they were 9 years ago.

Captain Humayn Khan served during the Iraq War where, in 2004, at the age of 27, he was killed in a suicide bombing. He was inspecting a guard post when he saw a suspicious vehicle approaching. Ordering his subordinates to stay back, he stepped forward to engage. The car was later determined to have been carrying more than 200 pounds of explosives, and when it detonated he was killed along with the two suicide attackers. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart and is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

Please take a moment this Memorial Day to listen.