KABUL — Abdul Wali Fadaei is proud of his family history.

His father died when he drove an explosives-laden car into the capital’s upscale Hotel Inter-Continental in 2011, a brazen attack that killed 18 people, including seven militants.

His brothers — he won’t say how many or their ages — are studying to become suicide bombers.

Fadaei, 17, was arrested last year before he was able to detonate the explosives he’d transported in a Toyota from Kandahar to Kabul in order to kill Americans.

“The message my father left me when he became a martyr was that I should follow him,” Fadaei said, speaking in a matter-of-fact tone while sitting on a thin mattress in a small, dank room in Kabul’s government-run juvenile rehabilitation center.

“I regret my attack failed, but I gained by trying. I’ll decide about trying again after I’m out.”

Next to him sat Esmatullah Bilal, with a crew cut and an Abe Lincoln beard. He got caught with a 26-pound suicide vest shortly before a planned attack.

Bilal, who’s 17 too, doesn’t feel any remorse. Quite the opposite, in fact.

“I want to kill foreigners in Afghanistan,” he told a Western reporter, intensity emanating from his dark eyes. “If you live here, we’ll come after you and kill you. You’re lucky you’re so close and you’re not dead.”

A soldier walks into a bar, sits down and meets a civilian. The civilian asks him, “So, have you ever killed anybody?”

Sounds like a joke, but it isn’t.

Soldiers say that’s one of the most outrageous questions civilians ask them, out of all of the ridiculous questions they hear.

Inspired by a YouTube video called “S--- Civilians Say to Veterans,” Army Times asked soldiers about the strangest, stupidest questions or comments they’ve had from civilians about their service.

Many answered. Their experiences reveal the scary truth of just how much civilians don’t get about being a soldier.

“If I’ve ever killed someone,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Mark Trepanier, who has served as a human resources tech since 1989, with four deployments. “Now I just look at them all crazy and say, ‘I'm about to!’ ”

“My own mother asked me more than once if I had killed many people while I was serving in Kosovo,” said former dental specialist Rafael Grajales Garrett, a 14-year veteran. “I loved my mother, but have to admit that the level of ignorance civilians display when it comes to the military and veterans is frightening.”

One of two hydrogen bombs that a doomed B-52 accidentally dropped on North Carolina in 1961 came perilously close to exploding, according to a recently declassified report.

The 4-megaton Mark 39 bombs — each packing 260 times the explosive power of the weapon that decimated Hiroshima — broke loose over Goldsboro, N.C., as the bomber went into a tailspin and crashed.

All four safety mechanisms designed to prevent accidental detonation worked properly on one bomb, which landed in a meadow, but three failed on the other, and only a low-voltage switch kept it from exploding upon impact in a field in Faro, N.C., said the 1969 report.

Had the warhead exploded, radioactive fallout could have spread over the Eastern Seaboard, hitting Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.

The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. Five of the eight crew members survived the crash.

The report was obtained by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser for his newest book, “Command and Control,” about the nuclear arms race. Schlosser found that between 1950 and 1968 alone, at least 700 “significant” accidents and incidents involving 1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded.

Mother Jones first reported Schlosser’s findings Sunday, and the Goldsboro incident attracted new attention Friday based on an article in the Guardian. The British paper also published the report, written by Parker F. Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia National Laboratories.