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Leslie

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It was friendly fire, but that didn’t stop the result from being the death of four young Canadians.

Sergeant Marc Leger, Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, and Privates Nathan Smith and Richard Green were killed in April of 2002 while serving in Afghanistan, when a U.S. pilot mistakenly dropped a bomb on them during a live-fire exercise.

Monday, in Kentucky a ceremony was held to honour the four Canadian troops, as their names were engraved on a wall that honours American soldiers who have died in combat.

They are the first non-Americans names to be placed on the monument, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, but that honour in itself, is not enough for some of the family members the Canadian soldiers left behind.

Monday’s ceremony was highly emotional, with several relatives in attendance, all of whom received regimental plaques.
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It's a nice gesture.
 
Liliandra said:
that it is, but something like that should not have happened in the first place.
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It was a very nice gesture, but I agree here. It should have never happened. The fact that they were shot down by mistake by a bunch of morons who didn't know what the hell they were doing is unforgivable.
 
And that sort of response engenders the feeling that we should have simply passed on the nice gesture and stayed quiet. After all, we just pissed off a bunch of people all over again. Great result.
 
Uki Chick said:
It was a very nice gesture, but I agree here. It should have never happened. The fact that they were shot down by mistake by a bunch of morons who didn't know what the hell they were doing is unforgivable.
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Let me be devil's advocate here. (yes the US is devil here :D ) War is bad. People get killed, some of them don't deserve. Accidents happen. All the time. With soldiers from every country. If they don't want their soldiers dead better don't send them. Simple as that.
I think also it was a nice gesture...
 
It was far more than a nice gesture. A 'nice gesture' would've been to send a letter to the families of the dead soldiers (which i'm pretty sure already happened). This was a very large gesture. A monument which is there to honour those who died in a war was opened up to non-American soldiers for the first time. This is a very large honour!

Kudos!



in retrospect...I'm wondering if the Canadian soldiers who lied and joined the American military in past wars got such an honour.
 
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