Military to hold ramp ceremony for fallen troops (No, not US)

[WhiteTara]

This is how the Canadians treat their war dead
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060416/afghanistan_payne_060423/20060423?hub=CTVNewsAt11
Early Monday morning at the Kandahar airfield, the comrades of four dead Canadian soldiers will hold a ramp ceremony to send them home.

"It will be an opportunity for those on base to come out and have a final moment of thought for these four fallen soldiers, say their final goodbyes before the bodies are flown to Trenton," CTV's Sarah Galashan told Newsnet on Sunday from Kandahar.

The four are scheduled to return to the eastern Ontario air base of CFB Trenton on Tuesday.

The investigation into Saturday's deadly incident is ongoing, she said.

The soldiers were killed in the Gumbad region of Afghanistan, about 75 kilometres north of Kandahar. They were part of a mixed convoy of light armoured vehicles and G-wagons returning to Kandahar from Gumbad, when their vehicle was struck by an powerful bomb, possibly buried in the road.

[FightingIrish]

1. When you're shipping home 60 - 80 a month it has to be

a little more like Federal Express.

[Inland]

2. Comparing apples and oranges. We have so many more dead

and the war is going to stretch on so long, the corpses need to be processed without so much as a second look. You start giving a fuck about one dead soldier and before you know it, the entire week is booked solid. That's why there's no Rotunda memorial allowed, why flags aren't flown at half staff, why Bush or Cheny or Rummy or anyone, really, goes to funerals except the God Hates Fags reverened.

[mfeher71]

3. UPS

When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Hidden From The US Media Cameras