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‘I felt called to serve’: Marine severely injured in evacuation of Afghanistan receives Bay State honor

When the planes hit the twin towers on September 11, 2001, Tyler Vargas-Andrews was just three years old. He couldn’t have known it then, but the events of that day and the subsequent decades-long war which followed would shape his life in profound and lasting ways — far more than the average American or even …
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When the planes hit the twin towers on September 11, 2001, Tyler Vargas-Andrews was just three years old.

He couldn’t have known it then, but the events of that day and the subsequent decades-long war which followed would shape his life in profound and lasting ways — far more than the average American or even most veterans.