A Tribute

A link was sent to me for this wonderful video dedicated to our Canadian military. It is a tribute to those we've lost (it is a little out of date, and ends with Randy Payne) and the sacrifices they made for their country and for you and I.

Our Prayers are with them all

Two Canadians killed in Afghanistan, 8 wounded

Two Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others wounded early this evening here in a double-barreled suicide bombing which also killed at least three and perhaps as many as seven Afghan civilians and injured numerous others.

The dead Canadians are 44-year-old Corporal Francisco Gomez of the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, whose home unit is Lord Strathcona's Horse of Edmonton, and Corporal Jason Patrick Warren, 29, of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) based in Montreal.

An American in Germany thanks A Canadian from Laos

We truly are living in a global village.

MaryAnn from Soldiers Angels Germany writes of Master Bombardier Bounyarat Tanaphon Makthepharak of the 30th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, one of the many wounded she tends to at Landstuhl Hospital.

Last Friday, the day before Canada Day, Mak was seriously injured in the Taleban rocket attack on the coaltion base in Kandahar that also injured another Canadian soldier, five U.S. troops, and three civilian workers.

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As soon as he could speak, Mak asked the nurses to tell his mother he's "going to be ok."

David Warren writes of strength

In his Dominion Day post, he speaks to the strength of our heroes; those on today's battlefields and those gone before.

The very best of Canada is now on the field by Kandahar, doing what Canadian soldiers have always done, building order against tyranny at the risk of their own lives, and slicing the heads off dragons. It is an act of good faith that gives me hope for Canada again, this bold commitment to do our share of the damage against a ghastly enemy, now in Afghanistan’s poppy fields. (For this, Grits and Tories alike are due praise.) Call it if you will our legacy from the Crusaders -- another proud word, not to be denied -- I will speak without shame about valour.

Happy Canada Day!

To all our men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces, at home and abroad, with family or in the danger zones, Canadian Angels wishes you a safe and happy Canada Day!