Fighting war and waging peace

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Rye Barcott about his memoir, "It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace." Barcott was a Marine captain in Iraq, but he learned more about ethnic violence and how to prevent it when he moved into one of the biggest slums in Africa, called Kibera.

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