The article says "At CFB Trenton, several other supporters lined up ....." I believe it should read "several hundred supporters lined up ...." I was there. It was my 32nd repat ceremony.Non of which I have enjoyed, but each one significant in support of our troops.
code blue, your a cracker head if you read that woman's stuff. You hear all about the guys that get killed or injured but no-one hears about the guys and gals behind that are building schools or digging wells. Women can now go to school without fear of being killed or stoned to death. Canadian medics go out all the time giving out free medical and dental care. Afganistan has nothing to do with todays price of oil but it might tomorrow. Give your head a shake.
Read Hamida Ghafour's input and you will find that nothing has really changed in Afghanistan. The 11 billion dollars designated for reconstruction has mainly stayed in the hands of the Warlords and the elite few. Unfortunately, our government is insane to participate in something that will never change. It costs a lot of money to invade a country and sustain a war, and thats precisely why the price of gas is killing our economy.
God bless them all. I work at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Veterans there all hear the news and read abut it too. They feel the losses as the families do. How many more is anybody's guess. Well I salute them all. Farewell, noble fellow. Jennifer.
In an ideal world our soldiers should be brought home but the situation in Afghanistan is not ideal. Bringing home our troops now would be an insult to those fallen soldiers and their families as they would have given their lives in vain. We have to continue until 2011. To extend the mission beyond then particularly if no real advances are made would be damaging.
