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God rest their souls.

Let them be not forgen and let everybody learn form the mistakes that have been made and never let them happen again.

God bless them and God bless Canada.

From a Military stand of point... they nail it on the head...

Its about time those guys are recongnize for something.
What does our government has done for them so far???

That really is a great thing to be honouring them like that. That US officer said our soldiers were recognized as part of their unit. Other canadian units have been medaled by the US in Afghanistan. Like Mario said what has our government done for them? Is there a memorial up here?

while we're at it, let's not forget the other 116 Canadian military personnel who have died serving as peacekeepers.

not being lazy, just asking, yeesh.And by the way that memorial is in Afghanistan, Is there one in Canada? Get looking!

Before this starts to be a Canada bashing thread please follow the link to see how our soldiers have been honored. I wish some of you would stop being so lazy and find this stuff for yourself, it's not that hard.


As far as honoring other nations soldiers, we have done it before in Arlington with the Canadian Cross.

It's good to see that Canadian contribution is recognized. I've not been in Canada for a while nor have been on a Canadian forum since the CBC was torn out of it's programing (take this into account when reading my post), so any credit that has come along I've never seen other than under the controversial subject of "soldiers dead from friendly fire" where even credit and support was few and far between other than to throw jabs (where I've managed to refrain myself, although temptation is there). Even on the CBC forums there was little to no reference towards a Canadian contribution in debate or arguement, a point which really got my goat. This is the first time it's become apparent to me (through a posted link) and, (dare I say), unfortunately, it has to come under the title of the fallen soldiers under friendly fire (god bless), as Canadian contribution should be common knowledge. Afganistan has been going on for quite a while and recognition has taken too long to surface, including from the average Joe/Jane Canadian. Few have been quick to point it out and some have never even bothered/searched/known/thought enough to support Canadian soldiers and their role for our country, something that they deserve.

Hats off to you Avro and your effort (not forgetting the rest of the posters' support). Although it may be deemed as details easy enough to find by punching it up on the ol' search engine, sometimes it is necessary for info. to be put up on the notice boards for public consumption and/or thrown into peoples' faces until it finally hits home. I for one have been too thick to figure it out myself. Good link.

Finally a decent post from Avro! As for your comment Lily about having a hand in their death, if you don't know the circumstances then shut up! The 101st Airborne had NOTHING to do with their deaths, and as far as most of the troops that were there, they think the punishment for Schmidt was appropriate.

You might be wondering how I might know this. I know because I was there that night, and as horrible as it was the bottom line is it was a training accident that unfortunately resulted in deaths. In the military, ours and other nations, there will always be training accidents and deaths. It's unfortunate but that's the way it is.

As far as the timeframe Col Wiesinski made a pledge the day of the accident to honour our troops, but like everything else these things sometimes take time.

As far as our government honouring the troops, try to find any info on how the recognized the job our snipers did for the 101st. The Americans honoured them with bronze stars, and Canada did nothing!

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