It was our nation’s longest war, but many Americans still can’t locate Afghanistan on a map. What was that war like for the men and women who served there? Ahead of Veterans Day, two from the suburbs tell their stories. “I realize people don’t know who we are and what we do,” one says. “We were forgotten.”
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