It was Tom Brady's name that got his family out of Afghanistan -- and it was a Buccaneers game that helped this former Afghan interpreter turned US Army soldier reunite with a veteran friend he hadn't seen for a decade.
The game on Sunday in Tampa was the first time Said Noor and Steve Morse had seen each other since a 2011 firefight against the Taliban in Afghanistan and it was thanks to an unlikely series of events that included a US congressman, a Tom Brady code word, and a pair of VIP tickets courtesy of the Bucs."It's like a dream coming true," Noor said.
Reps. Moulton, Meijer on what they saw on the ground at Kabul airport 07:55In an internal memo shared with CNN by Moulton's office, Neesha Suarez, the congressman's director of constituent services, detailed the escape efforts. They centered on getting Noor's family through a separate gate into Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.The Marine captain messaged Suarez to say,"I'm at the gate. I'm gonna send a guy by the name of 'Omar.
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