The former interpreter for the U.S. Army counts himself among the lucky as an Afghan who managed to make it through frantic crowds outside the Kabul airport to board a military evacuation flight out of the country with little more than the clothes on his back.
Esrar Ahmad Saber now waits, along with 11,000 other Afghans, from the safety of a U.S. base in central New Jersey, while worrying about family members left behind and enduring a prolonged resettlement process.
Saber has been at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in central New Jersey since August 26 as has nearly everyone else at one of the three "villages" set up there for refugees.
