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The Choice: Joe Glenton

07/06/2011

Joe Glenton

BBC Radio 4 - The Choice, Joe Glenton

Michael Buerk talks to Joe Glenton about his choice to go AWOL.

Michael Buerk talks to Joe Glenton about how he made the choice to abandon the army and his colleagues because he couldn't agree with the war he had witnessed in Afghanistan.

Joe Glenton was a bright young soldier, destined for leadership and intent on helping the local people, when he made his first trip to Afghanistan in 2006. 
But what he experienced there led him to make the hardest choice of his life.. to honour his commitment to his colleagues and the people of Afghanistan or abandon his men, break his promise and run away to the other side of the world.

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