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Every Canadian fatality in Afghanistan has an addendum, a pro forma epitaph: "We mourn the loss ...'' "The deaths of these brave men will not be in vain .'' "They died doing what they believed in ...'' All of which
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LAST TRIP HOME By Billy Willbond Canadian Soldier Poet Our piper plays a tune of glory – it is a sad lament As Sgt Chris and Cpl Steve and Pte Joel are sent Up the ramp as an end to their story-back to Canada they went Onto the Herc for a final
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Miller makes troop bumper sticker a political issue Published: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 OTTAWA • As Toronto councillors discussed yesterday whether to overturn a decision to remove the Support Our Troops bumper stickers from city fire trucks and ambulances,
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Col. Don Ethell draws my attention to a CTV broadcast in which Lloyd Robertson described Sunday's incident in which six Canadian soldiers were killed when a LAV III was destroyed by an improvised explosive device, as the "biggest single day loss
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Lots of excitement to report in the past few weeks; some good, some horrific, some just plain boring. I'll leave out the boring. A several weeks ago, we learned that one of the members of our cell was going home. He was extending his tour from the
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Greetings to you all in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing this brief email to you from Israel to update some of you who may not have realized that Sister Rebekah and I slipped away on yet another Missions trip. We have returned
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We greet you and send you this little update from Alexandria , Egypt . It’s humbling to be in this city which history credits the disciple Mark with having established the first Christian church in the 1 st century, and which is also recognized
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