On this boxing day 2008 another Canadian soldier pays the ultimate price. Three other comrades in arms have been wounded. The cowardly taliban plant their ied's then scurry off like rats to hide under the rocks and dirt of Afghanistan.
Prior to this atrocious attack on Canadaian troops. Other soldiers of the coalition surrounded an afghan house and fought with the cowards inside. 11 taliban trash were killed. The coalition troops found dozens of land mines, grenades, AK-47s and bomb-making materials inside the home.
The dead soldier was identified by the military as Pte. Michael Freeman, 28, who served with November Company, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Canadian Regiment from CFB Petawawa, Ont. He was less than two weeks back in Kandahar from home leave. This was his first tour of Afghanistan.
My prayers and thoughts go to the loved ones of Pte.Freeman and to the families and loved ones of the wounded. May the injured have a full speedy recovery.
A poem from Saskatchewan
The Maple Leafs are falling On foreign soil once again, To be scattered cross the desert By unforgiving Asian wind. This dust is barren, unprotected, Unlike his field of wheat; The sand is so unlike his Maritimes, No majestic Rockie peak. He hears a lonely Piper now, Black boots marching through the snow, The warm drape of the Maple Leaf, Tells him all he has to know. Four winds have gently cast the Leaf, To land on home terrain, Flying freely there, he will declare, His fall was not in vain. J.S. McGregor
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
