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MARINE CORPS LANCE CPL. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20 Norco, California Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui of Norco, California, sent videos to his family hours before he died, showing himself interacting with children in Afghanistan. In one of the clips, he asked a young boy to say hello. “Want to take a video together buddy?” Nikoui said, leaning in to take a video of himself with the boy. “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. Arreola described Nikoui as an “amazing young man” full of promise who always wanted to be a Marine and set out to achieve his goal. He is survived by his parents and three siblings. “He loved this country and everything we stand for. It’s just so hard to know that we’ve lost him,” he said, crying. Generally speaking, those and those who appointed the woke should abdicate their positions. In the heart of our loss of our finest.