Volume 6 - Legion BC/Yukon Command Website

SPECIAL TRIBUTEA TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PAID THEULTIMATE PRICE WHILE SERVING THEIR COUNTRYDURING THE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN.It has been a very long war. As we now mark the tenth anniversary of the September ember 11 attacks, acks, the American-ledmission to destroy al-Qaida, knock the Taliban from power and stabilize Afghanistan enters its second decade.From the early days, when Kandahar Airfield was still a Taliban stronghold to the present moment, the CanadianForces have been involved in the fight one way or another. And this involvement continues as the mission shiftsfrom combat to training Afghan nationals.Afghanistan is Canada’s ada’s single longest military conflict – and the cost in lives, as you can see in these pages,has been tragic.Many of these men and women took their final Canadian journey down the Highway of Heroes, from Trenton toToronto, past hundreds if not thousands of Canadians standing at attention – police saluting at the side of theroad, fireman on the on-ramps, Legionnaires es lining the bridges. This is how Canada remembers them.PTE. NATHANSMITH3RD BATTALION, ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYAPRIL 18, 2002PTE. RICHARD GREEN3RD BATTALION, ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYAPRIL 18, 2002CPL. AINSWORTH DYER3RD BATTALION, ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYAPRIL 18, 2002SGT. MARC D. LÉGER3RD BATTALION,ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIANLIGHT INFANTRYAPRIL18, 2002SGT. ROBERT ALAN SHORT3RD BATTALION, ALION, ROYALCANADIAN REGIMENTOCTOBER 2, 2003CPL. ROBBIE CHRISTOPHERBEERENFENGER3RD BATTALION, ALION, ROYALCANADIAN REGIMENTOCTOBER 2, 2003CPL. JAMIE BRENDAN MURPHY1ST BATTALION, ALION, ROYALCANADIAN REGIMENTJANUARY 27, 2004PTE. BRAUN SCOTT WOODFIELD2ND BATTALION, ALION, ROYALCANADIAN REGIMENTNOVEMBER 24, 2005MR. GLYN BERRYFOREIGN AFFAIRS AIRS CANADAJANUARY 15, 2006CPL. PAUL DAVIS2ND BATTALION,ALION, PRINCESSPATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYMARCH 2, 2006Originally published in the Sep/Oct 2011 issue of Legion Magazine.© Legion Magazine, 2011.PM.CPL. TIMOTHY WILSON2ND BATTALION, ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYMARCH 5, 2006PTE. ROBERT COSTALL1ST BATTALION,ALION, PRINCESS PATRICIA’SCANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRYMARCH 29, 2006LIEUT. WILLIAM TURNER20TH FIELD ARTILLERYREGIMENTAPRIL 22, 2006WWW.LEGIONMAGAZINE.COMMwww.legionbcyukon.ca41