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We are better off with our KDF soldiers back at home

Quote: True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else? Clarence Darrow

When my friend Lt. Thomas Wamungu Mwangi first told me that he had been picked as a cadet with the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), I was delighted. He was too. When he told me a few years later that he would be going to Somalia for the mission, my heart sank. My palms dampened.

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