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Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan - Roadside Bomb
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by albertacowpoke | September 14, 2009 at 03:47 am
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Canada's casualty count in Afghanistan is now up to 130. Private Patrick Lormand, 21, of the Royal 22nd Regiment (Vandoos) was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb. 4 soldiers were injured. The injured were treated and released. Names have not been made available.
The incident happened in the volatile Panjwaii District, where two other Canadian soldiers were killed just a week ago.
Brigadier General Jonathan Vance, said the vehicle Pte Lormand was traveling in struck the device, 13 kilometers (8 miles) southwest of Khandahar City.
A Canadian solider has died in Afghanistan while patrolling in the volatile Panjwaii district, where two other soldiers were killed just a week ago.
Pte. Patrick Lormand, 21, of the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment based in Quebec City, was killed and four others were injured in a roadside blast from an improvised explosive device on Sunday afternoon, the military said.
The armoured vehicle that Lormand was riding in struck the device about 13 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City, Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance said Monday.
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at 04:40 on September 14th, 2009
Time to take the gloves off!
at 04:42 on September 14th, 2009
Somebody has to come up with goals and objectives in Afghanistan and a workable plan to resolve this problem.
at 04:59 on September 14th, 2009
Brig. Gen. Jonathan Vance, the commander of Task Force Kandahar, defends the mission, and says, "The thousands of young, clear, determined eyes that remain wide open here in Kandahar are working hard, every day to protect and stabilize the population -- not an impossible mission as some might suggest."
"He took a fatal strike where an Afghan family might have. He lived in the community so they knew the families he was protecting and they saw him as just that -- a protector. He came here to help and help he did."
They don't see it as a lot of us do, I guess...
at 16:47 on September 14th, 2009
I know Jonathan Vance and I also understand where he and his troops are coming from. When you go on a mission you must focus on it and not get led astray by the politics of the day. This is particularly true of the young soldiers. General Vance, while doing his best to focus on the mission is also burdened with the politics of Afghanistan, especially the Governor of Khandar and of course the politics back home. While the troops are there we must support them.
Politicians decide where soldiers go and not soldiers.
at 13:17 on September 14th, 2009
Please accept my condolences for the loss this young Canadian soilder. Hearing about the deaths from any country, including mine, is heartbreaking, but when you see their pictures and read their ages, it is too much to bear. There is a news program that has a weekly count of those loss with their pictures for the last few years. I have never been able to watch it.
I wish this could end.