As Canada's Liberal Party Takes Office, US Military Deserters Get New Hope With Trudeau Administration

For U.S. Marine Dean Walcott, his progression from hesitant soldier to being officially AWOL began in late 2004. During his two-month deployment to Lundstuhl Regional Medical Center in southwest Germany, the charred bodies of Iraqi civilians, victims of a mortar attack in Mosul, began steadily arriving by plane for emergency treatment. The sight of children and babies dying while in extreme pain triggered Walcott's loss of belief in the war in Iraq and became the start of a struggle to find meaning in his own life.