Tuesday 22 June 2010

When will it end?

The headlines read:  Canadian killed in Afghanistan 
 Sergeant James Macneil, 28, dead after IED blast.
Another soldier dies in Afghanistan. That brings the Canadian total up to 148.
For a full list: the 148 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan 
As the BBC said, 'Age doesn't matter: 18 or 30, they're someone's son

And in the UK...you can see that it hits many hard:

Britain's Afghanistan envoy quits
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles on 'extended leave' as British military death toll in country reaches 300.
News of his sudden departure comes as the Ministry of Defence confirmed the 300th British fatality in Afghanistan, a widely anticipated yet grim milestone in the nine-year war.

Not only family, extended family, friends, neighbours, all are impacted from these deaths.

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