Canada's military mission in
Afghanistan has officially come to an end, more than 12 years after it first
began.
The
M-L-A for Oromocto where C-F-B Gagetown is located, Jody Carr says it represents
closure, sorrow, anger and pride.
Carr says there would be worry
and stress whenever word came that a Canadian soldier had died. He vividly
remembers the conversation he had with his daughter when she was in grade 1 and
told him her friend's father wouldn't being coming home from Afghanistan after a
roadside bomb exploded in April of 2007.
Since February 2002, 158 Canadian
soldiers have died in that war-torn country including Private David Greenslade
of Saint John in that same roadside explosion during the Easter weekend of
2007.