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Preview: One bomb. Many lives
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:40PM EST
One year ago, a roadside bomb killed four Canadian soldiers and Calgary journalist Michelle Lang. On the first anniversary of their deaths, The Canadian Press revisits the story of the IED, the lives it ended and how the blast irrevocably changed so many others.
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'The Taliban got lucky,' says Captain
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:30PM EST
Capt. Darryl Watts, 42, of Calgary, was commander of Call Sign 4-2 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was at the base when word of the disaster came in. Back home, Capt. Watts is with the King's Own Calgary Regiment and a firefighter.
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'You never think it will happen to you'
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:25PM EST
Cpl. Brad Quast, 21, of Medicine Hat, Alta., a member of the Southern Alberta Light Horse regiment, is a college student who wanted to become a police officer or work with correctional services. His shin was fractured, his ankle fractured and dislocated, and his foot shattered into what one surgeon later described as "bone salad." Edtior's Note: This interview contains some graphic language.
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Debris falling 'sounded like rain on tin'
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:15PM EST
Experts say the explosive would likely never have been detected, but Cpl. Stu Shier, 21, often frets tjhat they should have found it earlier. Editor's Note: graphic language.
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Corporal's feet were 'destroyed'
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:10PM EST
Cpl. Barrett Fraser, 27, says the soldiers killed were like brothers to him.
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Soldier would go back now – if he could
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 7:00PM EST
Cpl. Fedor Volochtchik, 22, says the memory of the incident is always with him, "like a splinter in your mind."
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Deaths were 'a parent's worst nightmare'
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 6:45PM EST
"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy," says Cam Chidley, whose son Garrett died in the blast Dec. 30, 2009, in Afghanistan.
"You never forget," says the mother of Calgary journalist Michelle Lang, the lone civilian to die. "Every morning you wake up and it’s the first thing you think of." -
Amputation was 'the 'least of my injuries'
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 6:30PM EST
Bushra Saeed, then 25, was a policy analyst with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs — a job she’d wanted since high school after attending an anti-landmine fundraiser. Ms. Saeed sustained the most severe injuries of all the survivors, including a right leg that had to be amputated at the knee, a shredded lower left leg, and a ruptured gall bladder.
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How one bomb changed so many lives
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 6:00PM EST
In one wrenching instant of violence on a muddy Afghan road on Dec. 30th, 2009, five Canadians – four soldiers and a journalist – lost their lives to an IED. Four other soldiers, along with Bushra Saeed of Foreign Affairs, were injured. The survivors recount the ordeal. Editor's Note: Some of these interviews include graphic language.
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