Canadian soldiers killed by U.S. honored

[Judi Lynn]

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Posted on Tue, May. 24, 2005

Canadian soldiers killed by U.S. honored

RYAN LENZ
Associated Press

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - The names of four Canadians killed in an accidental American bombing in Afghanistan were added Monday to a memorial for slain members of the 101st Airborne Division.

Relatives of the soldiers wept during the annual ceremony to remember the more than 400 soldiers of the division's 187th Infantry Regiment that have been killed in battle since World War II. The Canadians were the first non-U.S. soldiers to have a place on the memorial, which reads "Let Valor Never Fail."
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The Canadians - Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, Pvt. Richard Green, Sgt. Marc Leger and Pvt. Nathan Smith - were fighting alongside American forces outside Kandahar in April 2002 when an Illinois National Guard pilot mistook their live-ammunition exercises as a hostile attack and dropped a 500-pound bomb.

The pilot, who was court-martialed and reprimanded, said his superiors never told him the Canadians would be conducting exercises in the area. Many Canadians were outraged by the bombing and the two days it took President Bush to publicly apologize.
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http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/11721629.htm

[LynnTheDem]

1. "ACCIDENTALLY killed"....

After being told NOT to bomb, and the pilot bombs anyways, disobeying a direct order...

"accidentally"...

Yeah what the f*ck ever.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. The four were the first Canadians to die in combat since the Korean War.

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From the posted article:

"The four were the first Canadians to die in combat since the Korean War."

and by our neighbours no less

and TWO DAYS for someone to talk Dumbya into thinking it might be the decent thing to say sorry to us Canuks . .

wunder why we don't like the Boy King too much . .

(sigh)

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