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Clay Wirestone: In Afghanistan’s fall, a swell of emotion for Kansas veterans and families (Column)
“We want to believe that we can change the world and our circumstances for the better. … But the end of our two decades in Afghanistan suggests that belief isn’t enough,” Clay Wirestone writes in this column for the Kansas Reflector.