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08 March 2009

Moving on from...

...homicidal gun-toting wolfpacks, criminally insane transsexual rapists and leftwing apologists for same... another actual contributing citizen and patriot pays the ultimate price...
-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A young soldier described as a small man with a big heart was killed yesterday when a bomb exploded near an armoured vehicle carrying Canadian troops.

Marc Diab, a 22-year-old Trooper with the Royal Canadian Dragoons based in Petawawa, Ont. was participating in security operations in Shah Wali Kot.
He will be remembered.

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UPDATE: He proudly chose to serve
His mother, Jihan Diab, said from her Mississauga, Ont., home that her son was proud to be in the military and was fulfilling a dream. “Marc called himself a soldier since he was probably eight, or before that.”

Diab, whose family emigrated to Canada from war-torn Lebanon in 2000, wanted to continue his military career after his current five-year stint was up in 2011.
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RELATED: Despite the loss... the mission continues
-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Major Jonathan Knaul was at the controls of the first helicopter in Canadian military history to lift Canadian troops into a combat zone.

The Chinook flown by Major Knaul helped lift a contingent of 180 soldiers to a far corner of the Zhari district, west of Kandahar city, where the troops raided a series of compounds in search of weapons and bomb-making equipment.
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