On 8 August 2005, while supporting Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, the men of Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha 316 (SFODA-316) became involved in a 54 hour combat engagement with the Taliban in Mari Ghar, Afghanistan. Gold Star father Jeff Falkel shares the story of his son, Staff Sergeant Chris Falkel, who helped save the lives of everyone else on his team as well as the sixteen Afghan National Army Soldiers fighting with them. Because of Chris’s actions, sixteen children have fathers. 
