Soldier coming home
Posted Dec 20, 2010 04:38:36 AM.
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The body of the 154th soldier to die during Canada’s mission to Afghanistan is on his way home.
Canadian soldiers placed a casket carrying Corporal Steve Martin on a plane in Kandahar yesterday.
Martin was on foot patrol Saturday during his second tour of Afghanistan when he was killed by an explosive device.
It happened near a major road construction project that NATO is pushing in a volatile district of Kandahar province.
Martin had arrived earlier this year just after burying his grandfather in his hometown of Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, about 115 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
A neighbour of Martin’s parents, Gaston Laterreur, says Martin always had a smile on his face when he walked by.
He says Martin was a brave man from a very nice family.
It is the first combat death suffered by the army since August.
