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General Dave Petraeus, Commander of NATO International Security Assistance force in Afghanistan thanks members of the Canadian Forces.

Shaun Francis, Special to the National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 One morning in November, four years ago, the doorbell’s ring woke up Jacqueline Girouard. It was 1:30 a.m. She went downstairs hoping that what woke her wasn’t what she feared every night when she went to sleep. She opened the door and saw [...]

National Post · Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 Among the red coats and tuxedos, the cocktails and the celebrity dancers stood Private Jackie Girouard, the 40-something mother of three from Bathurst, N.B., explaining to a crowd of nearly 2,000 on the eve of Remembrance Day her journey from grieving soldier’s widow to soldier herself. “I had [...]

When Gen. Walt Natynczyk met two Canadian sergeants sitting on top of a tank in Kandahar last Christmas Eve, they had one question. “They wondered if anyone back home cared what they were doing,” the chief of defence staff for the Canadian Armed Forces recalled of that Afghan mountaintop meeting. “They wondered does Canada care.” [...]