Cpl. Darren James Fitzpatrick of the PPCLI died yesterday from his wounds received in Afghanistan. Fitzpatrick encountered a roadside bomb that detonated while he was on patrol in Afghanistan on March 6.
He died 17 days later - in Canada.
There are lots of men and women returning from Afghanistan with scars and open wounds - some physical and some emotional - that are as much casualties of this war as was Fitzpatrick and any of the other 140+ who have died in this conflict that cannot be won.
Just remember that when the government tells you the toll that this war is taking on Canadians. And remember it again when the government caves to a US "request" that 600 Canadians remain in Kabul after 2011.
Also remember the date of September 17, 2009, when six Italian soldiers and ten civilians were killed by a car bomb in the so-called safe haven of Kabul.
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