Predictions for 2011
15 years ago
Friday, May 29, 2009
What do you think?
How many have died for you and your families so far, I had counted 118. Many of them leaving behind a husband or wife and kid(s). Why are they giving their lives and why are they there?
These people in the armed forces are in Afghanistan for a reason. There is a group many of us know that are called the Taliban that were first in Iraq, then they attacked the Twin Towers in America. Now we have men and women over there trying to fight the people who did this to prevent anything like that to happen to us because I tell you it would.
Many of the people we may actually know: #5 killed on October 2nd, 2003 Robert Alan Short from Fredericton from a land mine incident along a road regularly used by Canadian patrols leaving Camp Julien. The mines were believed to have been placed along the road two hours before the patrol. Three other Canadians were wounded, #43 killed on 27th November, 2006 Robert Girouard from Bouctouche killed by suicide bomber on bike while he was in an armored vehicle, #47 & #49 Aaron E. Williams from Perth-Andover and David Robert Greenslade from St. John, both killed on the 8th of April in 2007, along with six killed by a roadside bomb while riding in a LAV III (armored vehicle) 75 km west of Kandahar City near the border between Kandahar and Helmand provinces. One other soldier was seriously wounded, another lightly wounded, and two others escaped without injury. They were conducting a convoy security operation in support of Operation Achilles. It was the single worst attack on NATO troops and the single costliest day of combat for Canadian troops. #52 & #53 Allan Stewart from Newcastle and Patrick James Pentland from Geary, on the 11th of April were killed from a roadside bomb 38 km west of Kandahar city. #87 Colin William Wilmot from Fredericton on 5th July, 2008 killed by an IED while on foot-patrol in support of troops from PPCLI in Panjwaii district. #106 Gregory John Kruse from New Maryland on the 27th of December in 2008 was killed by a roadside IED along with two Afghan police officers and Afghan interpreter while inspecting an IED 25km west of Kandahar city. Four other Canadians wounded. #116 Corey Joseph Hayes from Ripples on the 20th of March in 2009 killed when a roadside bomb detonated under their vehicle in the Shah Wali Kot district about 20 km northwest of Kandahar City, while taking part in a massive operation to attack Taliban command centers and supply routes. Three other Canadian soldiers wounded in the blast, all these men were around the age of 22-46. I know it’s a hard thing to think that we are actually doing any good over seas, but when you think on how the country was before we were there, it has come a long way from a dictatorship, mass murders and killings to having a stabled government and little to no murders. Queen Elizabeth even said "to their eternal remembrance, to Canada, to all who would serve the cause of freedom, and to those who have lost their lives in Afghanistan."
I support our troops very highly. Therefore, I don’t have any arguments against this fact, although that many people have died.
So just think of this when another soldier dies in Afghanistan he is giving his life for his country, home, friends, family, and YOU!
These people in the armed forces are in Afghanistan for a reason. There is a group many of us know that are called the Taliban that were first in Iraq, then they attacked the Twin Towers in America. Now we have men and women over there trying to fight the people who did this to prevent anything like that to happen to us because I tell you it would.
Many of the people we may actually know: #5 killed on October 2nd, 2003 Robert Alan Short from Fredericton from a land mine incident along a road regularly used by Canadian patrols leaving Camp Julien. The mines were believed to have been placed along the road two hours before the patrol. Three other Canadians were wounded, #43 killed on 27th November, 2006 Robert Girouard from Bouctouche killed by suicide bomber on bike while he was in an armored vehicle, #47 & #49 Aaron E. Williams from Perth-Andover and David Robert Greenslade from St. John, both killed on the 8th of April in 2007, along with six killed by a roadside bomb while riding in a LAV III (armored vehicle) 75 km west of Kandahar City near the border between Kandahar and Helmand provinces. One other soldier was seriously wounded, another lightly wounded, and two others escaped without injury. They were conducting a convoy security operation in support of Operation Achilles. It was the single worst attack on NATO troops and the single costliest day of combat for Canadian troops. #52 & #53 Allan Stewart from Newcastle and Patrick James Pentland from Geary, on the 11th of April were killed from a roadside bomb 38 km west of Kandahar city. #87 Colin William Wilmot from Fredericton on 5th July, 2008 killed by an IED while on foot-patrol in support of troops from PPCLI in Panjwaii district. #106 Gregory John Kruse from New Maryland on the 27th of December in 2008 was killed by a roadside IED along with two Afghan police officers and Afghan interpreter while inspecting an IED 25km west of Kandahar city. Four other Canadians wounded. #116 Corey Joseph Hayes from Ripples on the 20th of March in 2009 killed when a roadside bomb detonated under their vehicle in the Shah Wali Kot district about 20 km northwest of Kandahar City, while taking part in a massive operation to attack Taliban command centers and supply routes. Three other Canadian soldiers wounded in the blast, all these men were around the age of 22-46. I know it’s a hard thing to think that we are actually doing any good over seas, but when you think on how the country was before we were there, it has come a long way from a dictatorship, mass murders and killings to having a stabled government and little to no murders. Queen Elizabeth even said "to their eternal remembrance, to Canada, to all who would serve the cause of freedom, and to those who have lost their lives in Afghanistan."
I support our troops very highly. Therefore, I don’t have any arguments against this fact, although that many people have died.
So just think of this when another soldier dies in Afghanistan he is giving his life for his country, home, friends, family, and YOU!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
analysis of essay
The essay that I was looking at was "Honor Them" by Mark A. on the Teen Ink site. The main piont of the song was that nobody cared that these people over there are dieing for them and they just don't care or take the time to even notice that they are coming back either dead or severly injured. The beggining was something that really caught my attention due to the fact that this person is cleaning up when he hears a plane and helocopter flying over head and acually notices them and why they might be coming back over. The ending is also very well put because they want everyone to take time out of their busy lifes to say a prayer for the ones that still fight and to honor the ones that gave their lives to keep them free.
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