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Hello from the Heartland. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters.

Our Smarter series features unique people who help us think

and live smarter. Well, my guest today is Tom Jocelyn. I'm going to give him a proper

introduction in just a moment. Tom, one of the things that I've been doing recently, it's been

become a little bit of a habit with recently, it's been to come a little

bit of a habit with some of my interviews is to ask a really big question, sort of get us started,

and then kind of get to an introduction. But today, I really think I do need to set the table

about when we're talking and why we're talking. We're talking less than 24 hours after the United

States ended the war in Afghanistan.

And although we ended the war in Afghanistan, there's really a lingering question about whether

or not that war is dead with us. The war on terror is something that you've talked about for decades.

For the last several weeks, though, the American citizens who maybe

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