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Sunday, January 17, 2010

First Canadian Soldier to die in 2010

"Vir fortis natus" "Destined Hero"

Please give a look. The lyrics pay tribute to the men and women who are "Fighting for freedom and staying the course.



Jan. 17, 2010 -- A Canadian soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, becoming the first Canadian killed in action there in 2010,.

The 44-year-old Sgt. John Wayne Faught stepped on a buried bomb at about 2 p.m. local time Saturday when he conducted a joint foot patrol with Afghan soldiers about 15 kilometers southwest of Kandahar City. No one else was injured.

Faught was a member of the Edmonton-based first Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and planned to retire in two years. He is the latest of the 139 soldiers to die in the eight-year-old mission.

Faught's body was carried by a military transport aircraft back to Canada, with more than 1,000 soldiers bid farewell.
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