Red or white poppies?

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:33 pm

In the first internission in Saturday's Montreal-Toronto hockey game, the CBC devoted its time to showing the photos of all Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan, with some bio info. It was quite moving. There were 42, of whom only two were officers. Only one woman and she was a captain. This probably doesn't seem like a lot of deaths, but it is to us.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:35 pm

42 is a lot. In fact one death is too many deaths.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:40 pm

CrazyHorse wrote:42 is a lot. In fact one death is too many deaths.

Yes, and we are questionning if we should stay in Afghanistan. Do we do any good at all? Do the sacrifices make any difference? Hopefully they do, but it is far away and we don't understand the situation too well.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:50 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:42 is a lot. In fact one death is too many deaths.
Yes, and we are questionning if we should stay in Afghanistan. Do we do any good at all? Do the sacrifices make any difference? Hopefully they do, but it is far away and we don't understand the situation too well.

I really don't know but I'd hate to think that people were out there risking their lives but achieving nothing.

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