Wish I had the link, but I found an even more remarkable story of US personnel restoring a smashed memorial to Soviet personnel at one of the Afghan air bases.
Good people the yanks, though they've elected some clowns (like us) and have sometimes behaved with incredible stupidity, arrogance and incompetence (like us). Pointing out their failing is hardly 'Yank Bashing' though perhaps we don't salute their strengths often enough.