Absence from his men adds salt to his wounds
CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD Globe and Mail
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — The last time I saw Captain John Croucher, the big lug was standing in the moonlight outside the patrol house at Gumbad north of Kandahar, talking about the improvised explosive device, or IED, strike that had exploded between two vehicles in his convoy.
Capt. Croucher was but four cars away, and even so felt the percussion, and the shock, and saw the enormous crater left behind.
But, as he said then with considerable pride, that day he left with 38 guys, and with 38 he returned to the mud-walled compound that Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry then called home.
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CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD Globe and Mail
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — The last time I saw Captain John Croucher, the big lug was standing in the moonlight outside the patrol house at Gumbad north of Kandahar, talking about the improvised explosive device, or IED, strike that had exploded between two vehicles in his convoy.
Capt. Croucher was but four cars away, and even so felt the percussion, and the shock, and saw the enormous crater left behind.
But, as he said then with considerable pride, that day he left with 38 guys, and with 38 he returned to the mud-walled compound that Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry then called home.
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