Afghanistan
Before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers, Joe Ritchie and his brother James Ritchie were already working to free Afghans from oppressive Taliban rule. The Ritchie brothers attempted to fill the foreign policy vacuum that had been left by the United States in Afghanistan. Joe and James Ritchie lived in Afghanistan as children, from 1957-1961. Their father had moved his young family to Kabul where he taught civil engineering.
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