SocietyHe was ready to fight in the 'war on terror.' A post-9/11 veteran reflects on enlisting

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault reported on young people who enlisted to fight in the global “war on terror.” Twenty-four years later, she found one U.S. Marine she had met and asked whether his service matched what he had signed up for.

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