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Mdiamond0720
October 3, 2006

Op:We Miss You pg2

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A LO about my friend Andy who just spent 18 months in Afghanistan. While on tour he was injured in an attack that also killed four of the men in his team.

Note that each one of the flowers is for the 38 Canadians that have given their lives in Afghanistan.

The journaling reads:
In 2002, Canada began sending its military into Afghanistan. Around the same time our very dear friend Andy joined the forces. By the end of 2004, Andy came for a visit to let us know that he was being shipped out February 2005. He wanted to say good-bye and to let us know his ‘final’ wishes, were he not to come home alive! I remember not really being able to comprehend Andy NOT coming home. I’ve been very lucky in my life so far as to never having lost anyone special to my heart. I’ve never had to go through that grief and emptiness, and the idea that Andy may not be around just wouldn’t connect itself in my brain.
Up until this point I admit I didn’t really pay too much attention to our
country’s involvement in the ‘war against terrorism’. Honestly, I didn’t believe that we should’ve been in Afghanistan at all! But now it involved someone very dear to me, someone whom I love. It suddenly made it all very personal.
Andy was essentially risking his life everyday to help win this fight-in fact thousands of men and women are risking their lives for this cause so it must be justly! So, as I sat here, enjoying my freedom without giving a second thought as to what it really cost; people like Andy, make the ultimate sacrifice so that we can ignorantly take our luxuries for granted!! For 18 months I sat riveted to the news every night, listening to reports from Afghanistan, getting lumps in my throat and having my stomach drop every time they would name the latest soldiers to have been killed. Thinking of the grief those poor families must be feeling, praying that I wasn’t going to have to feel that too.
And then it happened, the news broadcast was recounting the details in the latest attack and the phone rang. Steve told me that Andy was in surgery…. that he had been involved… four men already dead….
Thankfully, I didn’t have to wait long to hear that Andy was in fact alright, that he would be coming back home in August 2006. I can’t explain how proud I am of Andy, of all of our men and women who choose to do this for a living. How grateful I am to all the families of all our soldiers who gave
their lives for us. It is their sacrifices that have allowed us to live in peace.
Thank you.


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