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Captain Nichola K.S. Goddard killed in Afghanistan (17 May 2006)

It's also being televised (it's on right now, CBC Newsworld).

 
New Calgary school named after fallen soldier Nichola Goddard

By Katie Schneider ,Calgary Sun

Capt. Nichola Goddard’s name will live on in the walls of a new Calgary school, one of four opening this year.

The Calgary Board of Education approved the names of four new schools, expected to open in September, including one with the moniker Captain Nichola Goddard School, chosen in honour of the Calgary soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2006.

More at link.

 
Scott likes this.
 
Good news to hear, hopefully each and every new student will ask themselves.."who was Nichola Goddard.?" and they will be made aware of how it came about. 

:cdn:  :salute:
 
Her memory will definitely live on for a long time, this will bring a lot more awareness compared to a trg point out in the shilo ranges.
 
I like it too. Good job on Calgary  :salute:  - too bad Winnipeg won't take a lesson from them.
 
There is a school in Winnipeg named after a fallen airman:
http://www.wsd1.org/andrewmynarski/index.htm,org
 
mariomike said:
There is a school in Winnipeg named after a fallen airman:
http://www.wsd1.org/andrewmynarski/index.htm,org

Yes a WWII era airman who won the VC posthumously. Today's Winnipeg is very different. Its all about $$.
 
burn doctor likes this, and hopes for a robust CF presence at the opening ceremony.  If anyone hears details thereof, please post. I'd like to attend.

:salute:
 
May this choice of namesake inspire it's future generations that pass through it's doors to be as strong of character and worthy of respect as Nichola Goddard was.  :yellow: :salute:
 
CBC News reports that a new, Hero class, Canadaian Goast Guard Ship, the  'Captain Goddard, MSM' has entered the water for the first time in Halifax.

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A Hero class vessel, a sister ship of the Captain Goddard, MSM
 
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/15/mom_of_nichola_goddard_first_woman_killed_in_afghanistan_combat_proud_vessel_named_for_daughter.html
Sally Goddard of Charlottetown attended a Halifax ceremony Wednesday marking the official acceptance of the Captain Goddard into the coast guard.

By:  The Canadian Press,  Published on Wed Oct 15 2014
HALIFAX—The mother of the first Canadian woman to be killed in Afghanistan in a combat role says she feels her daughter would be proud to have a coast guard vessel named after her.
She says her daughter would have seen it as an honour for all of the Canadian Forces personnel who were killed during the conflict.
The artillery officer was killed in a Taliban ambush during a battle in the Panjwaii district on May 17, 2006.

The vessel was launched on May 17 this year, eight years after Nichola Goddard’s death and on the birthday of her father.
Sally Goddard says it’s moving for her to imagine the ship going about its duties patrolling the coasts, carrying out the goal of serving and protecting Canadians that her daughter believed in.
 
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