The Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial
This day before Canada's Remembrance Day, and I find myself near 8 Wing (CFB Trenton). I've stopped to see the memorial to the 158 Canadian soldiers, killed in Afghanistan, who transited through Trenton on their way to the morgue in Toronto. Then onward to their final resting places - all across Canada.
The black maple leaf, with the fissure, gives form to the loss the family suffers. On the back of this are inscribed the 158 names of Canada's fallen soldiers in Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial
This day before Canada's Remembrance Day, and I find myself near 8 Wing (CFB Trenton). I've stopped to see the memorial to the 158 Canadian soldiers, killed in Afghanistan, who transited through Trenton on their way to the morgue in Toronto. Then onward to their final resting places - all across Canada.
The black maple leaf, with the fissure, gives form to the loss the family suffers. On the back of this are inscribed the 158 names of Canada's fallen soldiers in Afghanistan.