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They risked their lives to help America and our allies and now they are trapped as the Taliban takes over Afghanistan.

Jen Wilson, the chief operating officer of Army Week Association, is leading the fight to get interpreters to safety.

“I’ve been glued to my phone for 96 hours now working since Sunday to get all of these guys out,” Wilson said.

Right now, there is no accurate figure of the number of people – Americans, Afghans or others – who are in need of evacuation as the process is almost entirely self-selecting.

Wilson said she originally had a list of 62 interpreters that were trying to evacuate, but that number keeps growing

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