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A couple of things I read this week have triggered this post: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/forgotten-missions.html
First off, Canadian troops come under fire in Kinshasha and get precisely one mention in the mainstream press. Then, the CF announces the end of Op BOREAS, leaving us with just eight personnel in the Balkans, and it doesn't even merit a mention by our news media.
Over 40,000 CF members served in the Balkans over the past fifteen years, and twenty-three died there. A couple of generations of soldiers cut their teeth in the Balkans. And not a mention.
I understand that when nearly 2,600 of your almost 2,700 overseas-deployed personnel are working on one mission, it will get the lion's share of the attention - that's just the way things work. But it must be odd to be serving in some bowel-cramping African hellhole, and have nobody at home pay any attention.
First off, Canadian troops come under fire in Kinshasha and get precisely one mention in the mainstream press. Then, the CF announces the end of Op BOREAS, leaving us with just eight personnel in the Balkans, and it doesn't even merit a mention by our news media.
Over 40,000 CF members served in the Balkans over the past fifteen years, and twenty-three died there. A couple of generations of soldiers cut their teeth in the Balkans. And not a mention.
I understand that when nearly 2,600 of your almost 2,700 overseas-deployed personnel are working on one mission, it will get the lion's share of the attention - that's just the way things work. But it must be odd to be serving in some bowel-cramping African hellhole, and have nobody at home pay any attention.