Americans Mixed on Sheltering Afghan Refugees in US

OCEAN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - Torie Fisher offered her cavernous Backward Flag Brewing Co. in the Jersey Shore community of Forked River as a collection center for donations to Afghan refugees, who had arrived at the nearby U.S. air base.  

"It's just the human thing to do. They are humans like us," said Fisher, an Army veteran who served in Iraq as a Black Hawk crew chief and door gunner, and an "Army brat" who was born in Fort Polk, Louisiana.  Brett Behrens, a police officer for Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, and a former counterintelligence contractor in Afghanistan, was one of the first to help out after seeing a post by a fellow police officer.   "A lot of the people there are really decent people," Behrens told VOA, describing the Afghans he met during his 27-month tour. "They weren't able to pack. They don't have jobs. They don't have homes. They don't have anything."