Tragic event

Three young soldiers are comming home to Trenton Ontario after being killed while dismantling a hidden bomb in Afghanastan.The terriorist had buried one bomb then hid the second. One of the soldiers was a reservist and the father of four beautiful children.His wife has said he and she both knew this was going to happen but he had a yearning to help the people of Afghanastan.God bless you brave sons of Canada.

God bless the brave men of Canada. I live in MO but have great respect for the brave men of Canada. Many of your brothers landed on the beaches of Normandy with my Father and thousands of others from the greatest generation. My thoughts and prayers and thanks are with them.
Paul

quite a story in the paper today about the reservist father of 4 was a spec constable with the st catherines police dept
these stories are enough to make a grown man cry
when the heck will it end ? how much more can we do over there to try to help those people & try to keep our people safe
bob

For our friends to the south, thank you for remembering Canada's fallen. As a nation, we haven't lost nearly as many as you folks, but each one is a tragedy and a heartache for someone. We have been on the overpasses on the 401 when they bring the bodies from Trenton to Toronto and there is real sorrow.
I could not imagine watching a coach bring my boys home in boxes, and it happens far too often.
For those who have lost, my profound sympathy.

Living near the border, and having spent a lot of time on the northern side of it (well, more the eastern side of it from here in Maine) I've been impressed with both the differences and the similarities in our countries.

The father and an uncle of an old girlfriend of mine, who both lived near Pt. Maitland, NS, up the Fundy shore from Yarmouth, had been in the same outfit in WWII, and niether one would eat mutton, as they had both had to eat spoiled mutton that they were able to forage while evading their eventual capture by the Germans.

And I know well the pride that one Stanley Metcalf, an acquaintance of mine, took in his father, Bill, being one of only six or seven Americans ever to be awarded the VC. Link below.

I also remember being asked to pipe for a wedding here in Maine. All the wedding party were in Highland rigging, and the groom's son and best man was having quite a time with his plaid -- had it balled up into an awful gob under his armpit so that he couldn't lower his arm.

Being more familiar with how to arrange it, I went to help. It was a MacKenzie tartan, nothing unusual, until I noticed that he was wearing a hair sporran of the military style, and that the saddle of it bore the horned stag crest of the old Seaforth Highlanders, long since merged with the Camerons into the Queen's Own Highlanders. It was a piece of history and I asked where they had come by it. They pointed to the corner and si, "It was his." And there sat Gramps, who had joined up with the Seaforth between the wars and went to WWII with their first battalion as a drummer and medic.

Those folks, and many good friends in the 3rd Batt (militia) of the Black Watch in Montreal and in the RCR in Gagetown NB, all serve to remind me that though we are two neighboring but very different countries, and our world views do differ, it is good to have such friends for neighbors.
Bill Metcalf

Thank you to the Canadians for their support and hope all return safely. God bless the ones for whom we mourn.

This afternoon I will attend the return of Sgt. Patch of Kewanee, Il. RIP

Rest in peace brave soles.

This hits home for me, I grew up in Trenton in the 60's and moved to California in 1970. My father was a Capt for the Royal Canadian Airforce.

Sorry to hear of the deaths of the three barve men. As much as being done in Afghanastan, and Iran. I din't think these people really appreciate the sacrafices our countries are doing for these people. Like in Vietnam soldiers fighting and dying, and going to Sigon, and see abled bodies men walking the streets. In the Phillipines during WW2 thousands of soldiers died defending these people, then not too many years ago they tell the US to get their bases out of their country. Maybe it's time to let these people fight each other, because as the soldiers leave that is exactually what will happen. Stan

I am Canadian myself and it is heartbreaking whenever I read of a Canadian soldier getting killed. I think the whole country feels the pain of the family.
I really don't know how the people of the US have been able to handle the losses they have had over the years. Especially Vietnam when the soldiers got no thanks at all for doing what they were told to do. Soldiers come home to protests and being hated by many for doing what they had to in order to survive.
My grandfather who died in 1982 served in the first world war. He would never talk about it but from what I have read that was a real hellish war with the gases used and the trench warfare.
It is great what both countries have done for others in the past century but do not seem to get any thanks for what they have done by some countries they have helped out. Sometimes it really makes me wonder if its worth fine young men being killed in some countries.
I have nothing but the deapest respect for all who have ever served. I cannot imagine what they have gone through.
My prayers go out to all soldiers from either side of the border that they stay safe.