Operation Medusa
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers backed by coalition troops and their Afghan allies launched a major offensive Saturday to drive Taliban insurgents from a stronghold west of Kandahar, Afghanistan they use as a staging ground for deadly ambushes and terror attacks in Kandahar City.
Such an operation is bound to result in casualties. The following people have lost their lives so far. The media has given their names and some details of the action that took their lives. Can anyone comment on who they were, what they liked to do and what they stood for in their own minds?
3 September 2006
Warrant Officer Frank Robert Mellish, Warrant Officer Richard Francis Nolan, and Private William Jonathon James Cushley (1 RCR) and Sergeant Shane Stachnik (2 CER)
The Petawawa-based soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the RCR were killed in one of the fiercest battles Canadians have fought since arriving in Afghanistan four years ago.
National Post Article
National Post Article about Offensive
Ramp Ceremony at National Post
posted by Willing Foe @ 9/04/2006 10:22:00 p.m.
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