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been there
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March 20, 2009: Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, Trooper Corey Hayes, Cpl. Tyler Crooks and Trooper Jack Bouthillier were killed in two separate bombings outside Kandahar City on Friday. Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli and Cpl. Tyler Crooks died when an improvised explosive device blew up near their patrol in the Zhari district. Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Shah Wali Kot district.
April 23, 2009: Major Michelle Mendes is the third female soldier to die in Afghanistan. She was based in Ottawa with Defence Intelligence and was a member of Task Force Kandahar headquarters.
July 3, 2009: Cpl. Nick Bulger, was killed Friday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb that narrowly missed a vehicle carrying the commander of coalition troops in Kandahar.
September 6, 2009: Major Yannick Pépin and Cpl. Jean-François Drouin were killed Sunday when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle in the Dand district southwest of Kandahar city around noon local time. Both were members of the 5 Combat Engineer Regiment and were stationed in Valcartier, Quebec.
September 13, 2009: Pte. Patrick Lormand of the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment based in Quebec City, was killed in a roadside blast from an improvised explosive device on Sunday afternoon.
September 17, 2009: Pte. Jonathan Couturier was killed Thursday southwest of Kandahar city in Panjwaii district in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device.
October 30, 2009: Sapper Steven Marshall was killed Friday by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in Kandahar.
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Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord. And let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
For the Armed Forces Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
For Peace O God, it is your will to hold both heaven and earth in a single peace. Let the design of your great love shine on the waste of our wraths and sorrows, and give peace to your Church, peach among nations, peace in our homes, and peace in our hearts; through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Death in Afghanistan - Harold Macdonald Canadiana | A little of this... and a little of that... Background Midi: Bring Him Home |
January
7, 2009:
Trooper Brian Good, with the Royal Canadian Dragoons was killed
when an improvised explosive device detonated near the armoured vehicle in which
he was traveling in the northern part of Afghanistan’s
Kandahar province.
January
31, 2009: Sapper Sean Greenfield, was killed by a roadside bomb
Saturday near Kandahar city. A bomb exploded under Greenfield's armoured
vehicle in the Zhari district, about 40 kilometres west of Kandahar city.
March 4, 2009:
Warrant Officer Dennis Brown, Cpl. Dany Fortin and Cpl. Kenneth O’Quinn
were killed in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device detonated
near their armoured vehicle during a patrol in Arghandab District, about 10
kilometres northwest of Kandahar city.
March 8, 2009: Trooper
Marc Diab
died when a roadside bomb exploded near his armoured vehicle on patrol
northeast of Kandahar City.
April
13, 2009: Trooper Karine Blais was killed when her armoured
vehicle struck a roadside bomb north of the city of Kandahar in southern
Afghanistan.
June 8, 2009: Pte. Alexandre Péloquin serving with
the 3rd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment — known as the Van Doos — was
killed by an explosive device while on foot patrol Monday in southern
Afghanistan.
June
14, 2009: Cpl. Martin Dubé, a combat engineer from the 5 Combat
Engineer Regiment based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, was killed in
southern Afghanistan on Sunday when an improvised explosive device he was trying
to defuse blew up.
June 23, 2009: Master Cpl. Charles-Philippe Michaud
was hurt on June 23 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his
dismounted patrol in the Panjwaii district, southwest of Kandahar city, the
Canadian Forces said in a statement. He was evacuated by helicopter to the
coalition medical facility at Kandahar Airfield and then moved to the Landstuhl
Regional Medical Centre in Germany. He arrived in Quebec City on June 28 and
succumbed to his injuries on Saturday afternoon.
July
6, 2009: Master Cpl. Patrice Audet and Cpl. Martin Joannette
died Monday in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that may have been caused by
mechanical failure or human error.
July
16, 2009: Pte. Sébastien Courcy fell to
his death Thursday while conducting operations in the Panjwaii district of
Afghanistan.
August
1, 2009: Cpl. Christian Bobbitt and Sapper Mathieu Allard were
killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan on Saturday. The two combat
engineers left their vehicle to secure the area after an initial blast near the
town of Senjaray when they were killed by a second explosion, which occurred
around 3:20 p.m. local time Saturday 15 kilometres west of Kandahar city.
October 28,
2009: Lt. Justin Boyes was killed when his foot patrol was hit by the
blast of a 
December
24, 2009: Lt. Andrew Nuttall was killed on a routine foot patrol near the
village of Nakhonay in Panjwaii District, about 25 kilometres southwest of
Kandahar city. 
December
30, 2009: Sgt. George Miok, Sgt. Kirk Taylor, Cpl. Zachery
McCormack and Pte. Garrett Chidley were killed Wednesday, along with
journalist Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald, who was reporting on the
war. The group's light-armoured vehicles were struck by an improvised explosive
device in the city of Kandahar. 
