Intmdtr
11-09-2017, 06:49 PM
April 8th 2007, Easter Sunday......I was in Afghanistan racing across the desert in my LAV 3, Call sign 22 Bravo, followed closely by the other 2 LAVs in my platoon. It was 1332hrs local time over there, when all of a sudden I felt a shudder beneath the vehicle and lost all sense of anything that happened next. Was the worst day of my life. My vehicle had struck a massive IED (improvised explosive device) that was big enough they said, to have severely damaged a 70 ton Leopard 2 tank if it had hit it.....
When the dust had settled, chaos insued as I came too once again, I heard screaming, the vehicle was lurching forward, even though much of it was gone....
6 fine soldiers, all my friends and mates I had served and trained with, some for months, some for years had been killed. I was torn apart. It took me years to recover although not 100% both mentally and physically....I have good days, I have bad days.
But I woke up this morning and as I was having my coffee at 5am before leaving for work, a story popped up on the news feed of my facebook account. The link is down below. This story damn near left me in tears, to think, to know, that people after all these years still care enough to think about those they may or may not even know......
https://www.inhalton.com/halton-police-officer-honours-six-canadian-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan-in-a-special-way
When the dust had settled, chaos insued as I came too once again, I heard screaming, the vehicle was lurching forward, even though much of it was gone....
6 fine soldiers, all my friends and mates I had served and trained with, some for months, some for years had been killed. I was torn apart. It took me years to recover although not 100% both mentally and physically....I have good days, I have bad days.
But I woke up this morning and as I was having my coffee at 5am before leaving for work, a story popped up on the news feed of my facebook account. The link is down below. This story damn near left me in tears, to think, to know, that people after all these years still care enough to think about those they may or may not even know......
https://www.inhalton.com/halton-police-officer-honours-six-canadian-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan-in-a-special-way