C'est avec le LOURD COEUR que j'ai lu de l'Artilleur Dion tu aujourd'hui en Afghanistan. Je me sens sr que ce n'est pas la voie que les Canadiens ont voulue mettre fin l'anne 2007.
Aux frres d'armes de famille d'Artilleur Dion et aux aims nos sympathies et condolances ce jour tragique.
It is with HEAVY HEART that I read of Gunner Dion killed today in Afghanistan.I feel sure that this is not the way that Canadians wanted to end the year 2007.
To Gunner Dion's family brothers in arms and loved ones our sympathies and condolences on this tragic day.
MA'SUM GHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's military commander in Afghanistan says the mission must continue even as soldiers mourn the loss Sunday of yet another colleague who died from a roadside bomb.
We are saddened by the tragic loss of our brother. We will mourn him, we will honour him and we will remember him, Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche said after announcing that 27-year-old gunner Jonathan Dion had been killed earlier in the day.
While doing so, we will carry on with our mission of helping the people of Afghanistan find peace and stability, with the same resolve as we have always shown.
Dion was killed and four other soldiers injured when their light armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb early Sunday in southern Afghanistan.
Dion was a gunner with the 5th Regiment d'Artillerie legere du Canada from Val-d'Or, Que.
The explosion happened shortly after 9 a.m. west of Kandahar Air Field, where the soldiers were headed to spend the new year.
Five people were evacuated by helicopter to hospital at Kandahar Air Field, where Dion was pronounced dead.
Laroche said the injuries of the other soldiers are considered non-life threatening.
They notified their families themselves and one of them has already been released form the hospital, he said.
In a statement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was deeply saddened by Dion's death, and wished the four injured soldiers a speedy recovery.
These brave Canadian soldiers were helping bring hope to a population that has seen much hardship, Harper said.
We will not forget the sacrifice made by Gunner Dion while working to make life better for others.
These Canadian soldiers were working to provide security and help create the conditions needed to improve the lives of the people of Afghanistan.
Dion's death marks the 74th time a Canadian soldier has died in combat in Afghanistan.
Most of those fatalities were the result of improvised explosive devices.
Peut il se reposer dans la main de Dieu .May he rest in the hand of God..........
To our four wounded soldiers, we wish them a full and speedy recovery...... nos quatre soldats blesss, nous leur souhaitons une rcupration complte et rapide.
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
