Afghan family ravaged by U.S. drone strike mistake wants headstones for the dead — and possible new life in America

 There was their shattered family house.

The Hellfire missile — the weapon used in the Pentagon’s capstone attack at the end of two-decade war — also killed the family’s only breadwinner, Zamarai Ahmadi.

 Without doubt, the Pentagon’s mea culpa Friday — that a series of miscalculations led to the wrongful targeting of Zamarai Ahmadi, an aid worker with a U.S.-based group — has lifted a heavy weight off the family.

government and help in leaving Afghanistan and getting resettled in the United States or another safe country, family members said.

“You can see the situation in Afghanistan is not good,” said Samim Ahmadi, 24, the step son of Zamarai.

Before last month’s drone strike, both Emal and Zamarai had applications in process to acquire special visas to enter the United States because of their work with American companies, said family members.

The drone strike has heightened the urgency to leave, they added.

“We are worried,” said Ajmal Ahmadi, another brother.

court, family members said.

government must punish those who launched the drone strike,” said Emal Ahmadi, slim and bearded, his firm voice at times softening with emotion.

 Yet so far, family members said, they have had no contact with U.S.

Just before the drone strike, Ahmadi had pulled into his gated family compound, where he and his three brothers grew up in a working-class enclave west of Kabul’s airport.

The entire family depended on Zamarai’s $500 monthly salary, said Emal.

With their house destroyed, the remaining 15 family members moved to his sister’s small, four-room home, an hour’s drive away.

“Every night we sleep on the roof because there is not enough space in the house,” said Ajmal Ahmadi.

The wives of Emal and another relative, Romal, are more traumatized, said family members.

The family tries to avoid their destroyed house as much as possible.

Those savings are gone, and the family is forced to borrow money again, said Emal