Immigration and demographics

FOR USE IN RELATED STORY ONLY -- Tony Short and Hazem Amiry became close friends in Afghanistan. After Kabul fell nearly seven years later, a promise Short made brought them even closer together.

A friendship forged in wartime changed their lives -- and gave them hope

This is the story, in their own words, of two men that America's longest war brought together — two men who refused to give up even when many things they believed in were falling apart.