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This former Special Ops soldier seeks peace — through flip-flops.


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This story originally aired on January 25, 2020. Matthew "Griff" Griffin did four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as an elite fighter with the Army Rangers. While there, he observed a kind of vicious cycle. Extreme poverty creates a breeding ground for extremism. War happens. War provides a kind of economic stimulus. War ends; the economic stimulus does, too. Things fall apart. The problem pained him, but he wasn't sure how to fix it. It was only after his service ended that Griffin struck
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