The Canadian media has all but forgotten the Afghanistan War, what with Canada winding down its combat mission and moving to the safer task of training Afghan soldiers, the eyes of the media and most Canadians are elsewhere.
But, Canadian soldiers still toil in Afghanistan and they still fight and their families still live through the fear and waiting, just as they did at the start.
It is therefore, particularly trying for those families who lose loved ones in the final days of our combat mission. With the nation focused elsewhere, they may feel particularly isolated.
Corporal Yannick Scherrer entered the conflict knowing full well that Canada's roll is in the final stages; that those lost now will be among the last to fall in Afghanistan. It mattered not though, for just as those who went before, Corporal Yannick Scherrer was a volunteer for dangerous and grueling duty; a Canadian warrior.
We extend our sympathy to his family and promise that we will not forget. We will remember him with gratitude ... gratitude that he was among those strong and capable men and women who are willing to stand between us and barbarism. They follow a long line of Canadian warriors who have kept the ugliness of an often savage world far away from our shores.
Thank You Corporal Yannick Scherrer.
WHO IS A HERO, BUT A MAN OR WOMAN WHO CONSIDERED THE ISSUES OF WAR AND POSSIBLE DEATH, AND WHO ENLISTED ANYWAY.
