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“Despite being clobbered in the head with a Taliban axe, I would go back in a heartbeat to finish off the mission.”
—Captain Trevor Greene,
a Canadian hero
This story of a Canadian military man, a hero named Capt. Trevor Greene, who was nearly bludgeoned to death with an axe (literally through the head) by a Taliban savage in Afghanistan, provides a lesson for all of us: Canadians generally, the liberal-left media, all liberals, and most particularly the likes of Jack Layton and his you’ve got to be kidding party tribe, who would renounce this hero’s own words and council Canadians instead to lay down their arms, come home, and allow the liberal-left appointed know-it-alls to take over and simply chat with the enemy over tea and buns.
And I found a strikingly good passage in the piece, written by Graham Thompson of CanWest News:
It is the story of a big-hearted and well-meaning man who sat down with people in the village of Gumbad, right in the heart of Taliban country, and in a show of trust and friendship laid down his weapon, removed his combat helmet and took out a note-pad and pen to write down what the villagers needed. That’s when a teenager brandishing a weapon right out of the Middle Ages attacked.
While Mr. Thompson describes that as “a metaphor for Canada’s mission”, and I can certainly see his point in that fantastic moving passage, I saw it a different way. I saw Layton and Liberals. I saw it as a metaphor for the liberal-left’s mantra on this whole matter of war with terrorists, whom, as is evident here, you simply cannot sit down and chat with over a cup of tea no matter how warm your heart and noble your intentions. They are not like us.
Anyway, don’t let me mangle the author’s good words and take them out of context. Read the good article yourself. And please make note of the donation information for the Trevor Greene Trust Fund below (it didn’t appear in the online version of the story).
Soldier’s arduous path to recovery
‘Despite being clobbered in the head with a Taliban axe, I would go back in a heartbeat to finish off the mission’
Graham Thomson, CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, March 03, 2007You might not remember his name. But you surely remember what happened to him.
One year ago Sunday, Capt. Trevor Greene of Vancouver was hit in the head by an Afghan wielding an axe in an attack that horrified Canadians for its sheer viciousness and brutality.
His shaken colleagues, who shot the attacker dead on the spot, thought Greene was done for. Indeed, the blow was probably deep and deadly enough to kill most people, but not Greene.
Astonishingly, the Seaforth Highlanders reservist survived the attack and today is most assuredly alive.
And he has a message for Canadians: “Despite being clobbered in the head with a Taliban axe, I would go back in a heartbeat to finish off the mission.”
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Captain Greene is battling back and is making great progress in his health as you’ll read in the story. A trust fund has been set up in his name and you can make donations at CIBC bank branches across Canada, as I most assuredly will, to this account:
“Captain Greene Trust Fund”
CIBC
Account #39-31137
(Bank 010, Transit 00500)
Thank you and may God bless you, Captain Trevor Greene. A true hero and a fantastic role model for all Canadians.
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