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Just got the March - April copy of the Legion Magazine and was very impressed by the article written on Master Corporal Erin Doyle.
Not only was I impressed by Erin Doyle (which I was greatly) but I was also impressed by the author Adam Day.
In my mind our military folks are well served by stories such as this.
May Erin Doyle Rest In Peace and his friends and family take pride and have thier pain lessened by his strength.
http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/
KTK
Your right Ken, terrific story. As you said, about Doyle and Day the author who put it all together.
To many are numbers because no one writes about them. Only those that knew them know that they are not a number. There are 89 other stories of Canadians like this that will not be told and more stories to follow that will never be told to us. However, there will still be the stories known only to those few who served with them and those at home that loved them.
A very inspiring article, and I like the man's style.
OFC
There is a similar book, a national best seller, called Fifteen Days by Christie Blatchford. She is a prominent newspaper columnist who followed the RCR around Zhari-Panjwaye, and out of 15 bad days wrote about the men who died those days, their friends and survivors.
I had to leave and absorb this story before posting. Our Canadian brothers to the north have been with us since at least WWI and we sometimes forget that. Our military is not the only one to make hard choices and sacrifices and this Yank thanks our neighbors to the north (men & women). Sorry to see a colorful person like Erin not be with us. Mike
Rest In Peace M/C Doyle & Godspeed to your family.
With all respect.
Paul
Oregon
Mike, you are genuinely welcome. Canadians in some circles vigourously like to differentiate themselves from Americans for a whole lot of reasons beyond the scope of this forum. Our military history is much less interesting to them than, oh say, our marvelous ballet companies and best selling children's authors. In fact Canada has a history of participating on a succession of UN peacekeeping missions that has meant our forces have been "in contact" - in a certain sense - since 1947. (Korea was just an "unseemly" non-victory war :ugh:.) The US has been in shooting wars for almost that same length of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonewall56
Since Gulf War One, our foreign policy has changed. Maybe there is less peace to keep, or our politicians want a better return on our defence investment. So some of the gentle souls in our society are quite taken aback when our men fight and kill bad guys, aggressively and deliberately, and that there are angry people in the world who want to kill our soldiers. To them I say sarcastically, you are welcome.
Signed, a three-war Canadian veteran