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Did My Fellow Soldiers Die in Vain?
U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 6th regiment, Charlie company pay tribute to Sergeant Daniel Angus and Lance Corporal Zachary Smith who were killed on in battle in the outskirts of Marjah in central Helmand on January 30, 2010. (Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images)
In a normal time, our leaders would tell us what it was all for. We don’t live in that time. So it's left to us to remember why we served in Afghanistan.
By Jordan Blashek
08.19.21 — U.S. Politics
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You know how angry and saddened and outraged you feel looking at the images out of Afghanistan? How flabbergasted you are that our Secretary of Defense is not saying, of the 10,000 Americans trapped in a country now run by the Taliban, that we will not stop until we get every single one, but rather: we’ll evacuate them “until the clock runs out or we ru…

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Jordan Blashek
Jordan is a businessman, writer, and US Marine Corps veteran. He is the co-author of the non-fiction title, Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground.
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