Three Canadian soldiers were killed as a result of an improvised explosive device attack on their armoured vehicle during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in the Arghandab District. The incident occurred approximately 15 kilometers west of Kandahar City at about 9:00 a.m., Kandahar time on 5 December 2008.
The Canadian soldiers were participating [...]

Here’s a video remembering the troops.  There are a couple of pics of my father in law in this clip, he is the bald guy in the transport. (Thanks Amy & Paul for making this clip.)
Names of the fallen Canadians (Afghanistan) can be found here and on the National Defense Site.

I must admit that while I was in school I thought that Remembrance Day was boring. I was always annoyed by having to stand in silence for a minute.
As I have grown up and matured, I have realized the importance of this day in our worlds history. A moment of silence is really not enough to remember [...]

As many of you may not know, my Father-in-Law was a soldier in the “War on Terror“. He was part of one of the first teams that went into Afghanistan. I can’t even imagine what really went on over there.
We’ve all seen the pictures on the news, of what goes on in a war, but [...]