First Canadian Casualties Since Korea, Huh?

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First Canadian Casualties Since Korea, huh?
Remember Vietnam?

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It was Big News on April 18 when US bombers dropped a load of
friendly fire on a bunch of Canadians, since they're from one of the
USA's cloest and most captive allied countries.  And of course
they're North Americans -- and more human -- than Uncle Sam's little
brown brothers.  But not human enough for their deaths to be
mentioned publicly for days by the dimwit in Residence at the White
House. Canadians were understandably miffed.

And not important enough for the press to get it right, either. The
early dispatches pronounced those killed as "the first Canadian
combat deaths since the Korean War." Not true.

See:

The wire services (and the newspapers that picked up the wire
stories) still haven't bothered to get it right.

On April 28th, Reuters gives us the " first Canadians killed in an
offensive military operation since the 1950s."

See:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020428/wl_canada_nm/canada_afghan_col_1


Hello? Remember Vietnam? Canadians served, fought, and died in
Vietnam. 

An estimated 30,000-40,000 Canadians served with U.S. Forces in
Southeast Asia.  Those who returned have written books about their
war; the literature on PTSD includes Canadian Vietnam Vets.

See:
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/internat.html#canada

http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/canadianvietnamvets/

Google offers up 127 links to information on PTSD and Canadian vets
when you search for:   [ 'Vietnam War' Canadians PTSD ]

Canadian Vietnam Veterans organizations are online at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/canadianvietnamvets/orgs.htm
 
More than one hundred Canadians died or are still listed as
missing-in-action (bodies not recovered).  Their names are on
the The Wall (Vietnam War Memorial) in Washington, DC.

http://www.ipsystems.com/powmia/

Their names are also listed, online and in real life, on the "north
wall" of Canadian casualties and POWs/MIAs.

http://www.ipsystems.com/powmia/names/names.html

It took exactly 1 minute to find the latter site on Google, along
with thousands of other links. 

April 28, 2002
 
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