20 years since 9/11, what have we learned?

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Members of the 6 Mobile Strike Force Kandak move into position during an exercise in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2013. Canadian troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 2014.Canadian Armed Forces photograph courtesy of Sgt. James Funk

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

September 2, 2021

EDMONTON—On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when I stepped out of the shower at 7 a.m. Mountain time, my wife told me to look at the television. With a towel wrapped around me, I stood staring at a replay of a lone plane smashing into the World Trade Center in New York City. Then the second plane. Th...

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