Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses Canadian soldiers at their base in Kandahar Afghanistan Monday March 13, 2006.
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Canada's war in Afghanistan was a decade of death, noble sacrifice and heroic soldiering marred by disgrace and accusations of complicity in torture. For the first time Canada's soldiers left the field of combat in a unfinished war, neither victorious nor defeated and with no clear answers as to what they were fighting and dying for. Here are 10 emblematic moments from Canada's time in Afghanistan.
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