rylee mccollum

Twenty-year-old Rylee McCollum was just a baby when the 9/11 attacks rocked the United States nearly 20 years ago.

The events that followed 13 members of our military has struck a chord across the country, but especially here in Wyoming with one of our own being taken away far too early at the age of twenty.

Few people would argue that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has ended well. But does that mean it was a mistake?

It's been one day, a little over 24 hours. In that time, more than $300,000 has been donated to the wife and unborn child of Rylee McCollum, the U.S. Marine from Wyoming who was killed in the suicide bombing terrorist attack that occurred in Afghanistan earlier this week.

Following the news of his death, many of Wyoming's leaders offered their condolences to the McCollum family, including Senator John Barrasso and Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Rylee McCollum, a Wyoming-born Marine, was one of the 13 U.S. soldiers who was killed in the suicide bombing at an Afghanistan airport in the country's capital of Kabul.

In addition to flags being flown at half-staff for all the U.S. service members who were lost in the August 26 terrorist attack at the airport in Kubal, Afghanistan, Governor Mark Gordon has ordered that both the U.S. and Wyoming State flags be flown in honor of Rylee McCollum...

Upon learning of the death of Rylee McCollum, a U.S. Marine who was one of 13 U.S. service members killed in the terrorist attack which took place at the airport in Kubal, Afghanistan, Governor Mark Gordon released a statement sending his condolences to the family...