CBC News published this video item, entitled “Afghanistan vet helps heal himself by helping others” – below is their description.
After serving three tours in Afghanistan and struggling with depression and addiction, Patrick Gordon is now helping poor families in Saint John, N.B., fight hunger, and he says it keeps him from relapsing.
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.