Pace on Earth

Hero of the Day

With the upheaval in the economy, constant political bickering, trade deadlines, and weekly weather bombs, it is easy to forget that we have a force of nearly 3000 service men and women deployed in Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force. Sadly the starkest reminders come in the form of memorial services on the tarmac at CFB Trenton. That was the case again this week as 3 more of our fighting men were killed in Afghanistan. Among them (on the right in the picture above) was Chad O'Quinn.

Chad was from Wassis and graduated from Oromocto High in 2003. The pictures posted on the facebook group dedicated to him make him out to be a fun-loving maniac, just like most of the guys I know. He's far to young to be dying. On that same page his tattoo artist dedicated a Metallica song to him. So here it is:

It's important to remember that those men and women are over there doing the duty they signed up for and putting themselves in harms way. Growing up in relatively close prozimity to CFB Gagetown I always had mixed feelings about military men. Most of the negatives came from jackass behaviour from drunken bucks on the town causing shit. Most of the positives came from guys that played rugby, tended to lay everything on the line in whatever they did, and became my friends. I foung this little clip that reminded me of those guys:

Good stuff.

Rest in Peace Chad.

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 4:16 p.m.