"Atlantic Canada's role in the military"
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rfmcdonaldFrom CNEWS:
"Atlantic Canada's role in the military"
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - When friends and family gather in a snow-covered graveyard this week to bid a final farewell to Cpl. Jamie Brendan Murphy, Atlantic Canada will have buried four of its own since the war on terrorism began in Afghanistan two years ago.
Though the region makes up less than eight per cent of the Canadian population, it accounts for 22 per cent of the Armed Forces.
Yet it is still shocking to the loved ones left behind that four of the seven Canadian soldiers killed on duty in Afghanistan hailed from the East Coast, most recently Murphy, killed by a suicide bomber last Tuesday in Kabul.
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"Atlantic Canada's role in the military"
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - When friends and family gather in a snow-covered graveyard this week to bid a final farewell to Cpl. Jamie Brendan Murphy, Atlantic Canada will have buried four of its own since the war on terrorism began in Afghanistan two years ago.
Though the region makes up less than eight per cent of the Canadian population, it accounts for 22 per cent of the Armed Forces.
Yet it is still shocking to the loved ones left behind that four of the seven Canadian soldiers killed on duty in Afghanistan hailed from the East Coast, most recently Murphy, killed by a suicide bomber last Tuesday in Kabul.
Read more..
