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When I first heard yesterday that Canada had suffered casualties in Kandahar, I got an e-mail from a soldier I know, a wonderfully literate man who has served in Afghanistan himself.
When he got the news, he said, he remembered what then-Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Hope once told a reporter. Lt.-Col. Hope was the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry-led battle group known as Task Force Orion, which was then in the midst of handing over to the battle group led by the 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment.
At the interview's end, Lt.-Col. Hope (he is now a colonel) was asked if there was anything else he wanted to say.
"Yes," he said, "there is.
"Remember that these soldiers are doing what they joined to do. Have no pity for them because we don't pity ourselves. Our suffering needs to be seen in the context of our achievements, which were many."
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When he got the news, he said, he remembered what then-Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Hope once told a reporter. Lt.-Col. Hope was the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry-led battle group known as Task Force Orion, which was then in the midst of handing over to the battle group led by the 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment.
At the interview's end, Lt.-Col. Hope (he is now a colonel) was asked if there was anything else he wanted to say.
"Yes," he said, "there is.
"Remember that these soldiers are doing what they joined to do. Have no pity for them because we don't pity ourselves. Our suffering needs to be seen in the context of our achievements, which were many."
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/GAM.20081206.BLATCHFORD06/TPStory/TPComment
