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As the catastrophe in Afghanistan unfolds and we await reports of beheadings and the brutalization of women, I think of the veteran I met at the used bookstore in Tontitown who lost both legs to a mine in that country. I think of Luke, a former Army Ranger with ties to Siloam Springs, who lost friends in an ambush there. And I remember what Siloam Springs resident and Afghanistan veteran Robert Staats told me more than a year ago about the Afghan soldiers U.S. forces were training: "Some of them joined the military to get fed, fattened up. Weapons training. They would go AWOL, join back up with the Taliban somewhere, and use the information they had obtained against us."

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