"By the end of the war, 457 British soldiers had been killed fighting the Taliban, a further 2,000 were wounded – and many more diagnosed with PTSD or left homeless.
Despite the horror of watching their friends be killed in combat or blown up by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 25 years on from the devastating events of September 11, 2001, British war heroes have now said their sacrifice 'wasn't worth it' and that the country is in a 'worse state than before' the conflict.
Ex-Royal Marine Commando Ben McBean was just 20 years old when he lost his right leg and left arm in an IED explosion in Kajaki, southern Afghanistan, in 2008.
His unit was approaching a suspected Taliban compound and he ran towards a wall when the bomb exploded, throwing him 20ft in the air."
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