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Raphael Warnock: “The war in Afghanistan is America's longest war, and by its conclusion, two decades after it started, we were deploying…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2021
The war in Afghanistan is America's longest war, and by its conclusion, two decades after it started, we were deploying men and women who were not even alive when the conflict started.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia

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Warnock highlights the generational impact of the Afghanistan war.

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