{"id":38552,"date":"2015-06-17T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=38552"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:31:21","slug":"north-carolina-mom-joins-kurds-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/north-carolina-mom-joins-kurds-to-fight-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Mom Joins Kurds to Fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/WJZY.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=607656;hostDomain=www.fox46charlotte.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11605169;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox46charlotte.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"north-carolina-mom-joins-kurds-to-fight-isis\" title=\"North Carolina Mom Joins Kurds to Fight ISIS\" title=\"FOX 46 Charlotte\">FOX 46 Charlotte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox46charlotte.com\/story\/29337231\/exclusive-north-carolina-mom-travels-to-iraq-to-join-kurds-in-isis-fight\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"north-carolina-mom-joins-kurds-to-fight-isis\" title=\"North Carolina Mom Joins Kurds to Fight ISIS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox48 Charlotte<\/a>, 25-year-old Samantha Johnston explained why she voluntarily left her three young children at her home in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, to join the Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight against ISIS. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long and hard process, a lot of praying, but it initially started tugging at my heart back in August,\u201d she said. \u201cThat&#8217;s when the beheadings started happening, and I decided to dig into the information on what&#8217;s going on there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnston, who served in the U.S. Army from 2008 to 2011, has been in the city of Kirkuk for just over two months.  As far as she knows, she\u2019s the only American woman fighting with the Kurds.  She recalled her departure from her family.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very hard, there are no words to express what I was feeling at that time,\u201d she said. \u201cMy family member drove me to the airport and she kept saying she can stop, that she can turn around, and I wanted her to, but at the same time I knew this was something that was important to me and I knew I needed to come and help in any way, but it was terrible, I hate remembering that trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnston\u2019s children, a 5-year old and two 3-year-old twins, are now in the care of her family.  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