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Fallen soldiers, Sergeant George
Miok of 41 Combat Engineer Regiment, based in Edmonton, Alberta;
Sergeant Kirk Taylor of 84 Independent Field Battery, Royal Canadian
Artillery, based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Corporal Zachery
McCormack of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (Fourth Battalion, Princess
Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry), based in Edmonton, Alberta;
Private Garrett William Chidley of The Second Battalion, Princess
Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, Alberta; and
Michelle Lang, a Canwest journalist from Calgary, Alberta, embedded
with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, return home to Canada on
January 3.
Present to pay their respects will be Her Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Mr. Robert Fonberg, Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk and other dignitaries. All were killed, and four other Canadian soldiers and one Canadian civilian official injured in an improvised explosive device attack on an armoured vehicle during a patrol 4 kilometres south of Kandahar City on Wednesday, December 30, at approximately 4:00 pm Kandahar time.. |
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