Sunday will mark a very special anniversary.

Weeks ago, in Afghanistan, the Taliban marked the Eid al-Adha holiday with a surprise attack. It sought to demonstrate that 17 years of effort by the U.S. forces were for naught–and to inspire the American public to bring its troops home, as the Tet offensive playing out on U.S. TVs did during the Vietnam War. There was just one problem.

Almost no one noticed.
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Maybe the best illustration, though, comes from America’s most influential social-media personality, who now commands not just those soldiers but also the country’s attention. As of Oct. 3, @realDonaldTrump had devoted some 30 tweets to the NFL anthem controversy during his presidency. He had tweeted about Afghanistan only five times.

The first American killed in this forever war was Johnny Micheal Spann, a CIA agent killed during a riot on November 25, 2001.
The most recent soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was yesterday.

With the parent's permission, a boy can enter the military at the age of 17.
So we are only months away from the first post-9/11 soldiers fighting in our forever war in Afghanistan.