Young dad-to-be was among 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan
Associated PressA young husband with a child on the way. In the note, Kim wrote that she remembered telling the friends to run the other way if they had to go in first and that both of them said, “If we die doing this, we die doing what we love.” KAREEM MAE’LEE GRANT NIKOUI, 20 Lance Corporal Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui, of Norco, California, sent videos to his family hours before he died, showing himself interacting with children in Afghanistan. “All right, we’re heroes now, man.” Close family friend Paul Arreola said the videos show “the heart of this young man, the love he has.” “The family is just heartbroken,” he said. Nikoui was also in the JROTC, and the Norco High School Air Force JROTC posted on Facebook that he was “one of our best Air Force JROTC cadets” and that “Kareem was set on being a Marine & always wanted to serve his country.” The city of Norco said Friday in a post on social media that Nikoui’s name will be enshrined on a memorial wall in the city. “This was something he always wanted to do, and I never seen a young man train as hard as he did to be the best soldier he could be,” Schmitz said of his son.
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