Category: Brave Canadians
Canadian Heroes to Be Honoured Friday
| 2/11/2009 | Posted by Patti under Afghanistan, Brave Canadians |
Today’s post was originally going to be about the improvement the Liberals under Michael Ignatieff are enjoying in the public opinion polls. I’m happy to see that change but another item caught my attention. Without those who are part of this item and those who went before them, we would not have the democracy we have. Our opinions as citizens wouldn’t really matter.
I live on a section of the Trans Canada Highway 401 which has been officially renamed “the Highway of Heroes”. It is the section of highway stretching from Trenton (20 minutes east of me) to Toronto (90 minutes west of me) which every Canadian killed in service to Canada in Afghanistan has travelled with their families. It is along this stretch that thousands of Canadians turn out in the frigid cold of January, the searing heat of July and all the weather in between to salute our fallen Canadian and express our collective pain at their loss.
During the last year, I’ve been part of saluting two of those who are going to be among those receiving military decorations from the Governor-General (the Canadian Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces) at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. There will be 48 receiving decorations for valour and service to this country. They are among the thousands of Canadian service personnel who leave their families to serve Canada here and abroad. (more…)
We Will Remember Sapper Greenfield
| 1/31/2009 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Sapper Sean David Greenfield – Afghanistan January 31, 2009
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
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We Will Remember Him
| 1/7/2009 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Trooper Brian Good – Afghanistan January 7, 2009
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
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We Will Remember Them
| 12/28/2008 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Pte Michael Freeman – Afghanistan December 26, 2008
WO Gaetan Roberge – Afghanistan December 27, 2008
Sgt Gregory Kruse – Afghanistan December 27, 2008
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
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We Will Remember Them
| 12/14/2008 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Cpl Thomas Hamilton – Afghanistan December 13, 2008
Pte John Curwin – Afghanistan December 13, 2008
Pte Justin Jones – Afghanistan December 13, 2008
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
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They Are Not Just Numbers
| 12/7/2008 | Posted by Patti under Afghanistan, Brave Canadians |
With this post I’m passing the milestone of 500 posts to this blog. It is almost ironic that today’s post is about the latest deaths in Afghanistan. The media has been making much of the fact that the three Canadians killed Friday in an IED attack crosses the ‘threshold’ of 100 deaths during the Afghanistan mission. For the families of the men killed, their friends and their communities they are not 98, 99 and 100 — they are Mark Mclaren, Demetrios Diplaros and Robert Wilson — men who believed in the mission and died trying to see it succeed.
I’m not a person who is moved to tears often but the deaths of each Canadian in Afghanistan moves me. I’ll be one of the Canadians up on the bridges tomorrow. Standing to the left of the Legion colour party, our Sgt-at-Arms will be standing on the right. As the procession approaches he’ll call out “Branch 187 — to our fallen comrades — salute!”, I’ll clench my jaw and hold that salute until the last vehicle passes underneath us. Saluting not only the service of those in the hearses but also the families who will feel their losses not as numbers but the numbing pain of losing one of their own. (more…)
We Will Remember Them
| 12/6/2008 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadians:
Cpl Mark Mclaren – Afghanistan December 5, 2008
Pte Demetrios Diplaros – Afghanistan December 5, 2008
WO Robert John Wilson – Afghanistan December 5, 2008
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
Support Our Troops — Wear Red on Fridays
We Will Remember Him
| 9/7/2008 | Posted by Patti under Brave Canadians |
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They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
In memory of our fallen Canadian:
Sgt. Prescott Shipway – Afghanistan September 7, 2008
Always Caring — Always Canadian — Never Defeated
Support Our Troops — Wear Red on Fridays
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