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editorial
Two soldiers deaths; 1 saluted, 1 forgotten
The contrast could not have been
more profound.
On the same day this week
that Canadians saluted fallen Sgt.
Andrew Doiron, as a hearse bore his
casket down Ontario's Highway of
Heroes, the military was called on the
carpet for its shabby handling of the
sudden death of another proud Cana-
dian soldier, Cpl. Stuart Langridge.
Doiron, serving with Canada's Spe-
cial Operations Regiment, was killed
in Iraq on March 6 by friendly fire from
allied Kurdish forces fighting Islamic
State militants. Three other Canadian
soldiers were wounded. Investigations
were promptly launched, not just by
the Canadians but also by the Kurds.
Langridge, a veteran who did tours
in Afghanistan and the former Yugo-
slavia, died in a 2008 suicide at CFB
Edmonton. The military bungled
probes into his death, a scathing Mili-
tary Police Complaints Commission
report found.
The anguish for both men's loved
ones, we can only imagine.
Doiron's family journeyed with him
down Hwy. 401, along which it's
become customary for strangers to
gather in solemn respect when our
soldiers killed overseas are returned
home. Langridge's family endured a
far longer, lonelier ride and had to
complain to get results.
Significantly, military investigators
withheld their son's suicide note from
his family for more than a year.
Three separate investigations were
done by the Canadian Forces National
Investigation Service, but the com-
plaint commission's report chronicles
how each was progressively more
incompetent. In the last one in 2010,
there was effectively no investigation
at all, the report found.
The commission recommended mil-
itary investigators not lead sudden -
death probes without minimum expe-
rience levels. Langridge's mother
wants an arm's-length process, with
civilian coroners and police.
Whether such change is needed is
worthy of debate: There have been
scores of military suicides since Cana-
da's Afghanistan mission alone, a
reminder war may not end with the
shooting.
What should never be a matter of
debate is full disclosure and truth
owed military families when their
loved ones die, whether on the front
lines a world away or fighting demons
at home.
For reminding us of that, we should
all salute Langridge's family.
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Potentially devastating factory fire extinguished
Mar. 21,1890
• The number of insane persons sent from this
county to the Provincial Asylums last year
was 21. The total number sent from this
county since the Asylums were first opened
is 416, of which 108 are still inmates.
• One day last week, Mr. John Jury of Ethel,
Grey Township, met with a strange acci-
dent. He was going along smoking where
some boys were playing football, when
one of the boys kicked the ball and it
struck him in the mouth, breaking his
pipe, driving a piece of the stem into the
roof of his mouth, knocking out one of his
teeth and upsetting him to the ground.
■ The sale of the Tuckersmith farm of Mrs.
Finlayson was well attended and every-
thing passed off very satisfactorily.
Horses sold as high as $150 each; cows
ranged from $40 to $50, and sheep went
as high as $20 a pair. The whole sale real-
ized $850.
Mar. 19,1915
London Free Press a check for $25 to be
applied to the fund for supplying the Cana-
dian soldiers at the front with tobacco.
■ There is a strong agitation in parts of
McKillop, Grey and Morris for the estab
lishment of a consolidated public school
in Walton. A meeting is to be held this
week to discuss and consider the matter.
• A very sad affair occurred in Hibbert Town-
ship last week when Mr. Robert Bell of the
6th Concession was killed in the stable by
one of his horses. He head been working all
day in the bush and returned about 6
o>clock to do the chores. While thus
engaged he was knocked down and tram
pled by a driving horse. He was in a help-
less condition when found in a stable by a
10 -year-old son. The wounds were dressed
and all that was possible done for the
injured man, but he succumbed to his inju-
ries about 12 o>clock the same evening.
Mar. 22, 1940
• What might have been a disastrous fire
was prevented Monday evening when a
• The Bayfield Patriotic Society has sent to the blaze in the Boshart furniture factory was
discovered and quickly extinguished. The
fire was discovered in the boiler room.
March 25,1965
• Members of Seaforth Council, Huron
County Council and town and county
officials formed a guard of honor Sunday
as funeral services were held for Seaforth
Reeve Nelson C. Cardno. Reeve Cardno
died suddenly from a heart attack at noon
Thursday at his Main Street home.
Mar. 21,1990
• The Seaforth chapter of Meals on Wheels
is stepping into the 1990s with a plan to
further improve its service. By the first of
May, program organizers are hoping to
have purchased new containers for the
transportation of their product - food.
• Seaforth Town Council passed a resolu-
tion last week giving the Seaforth Opti-
mist Club permission to seek LCBO privi-
leges for its Mardi Gras event, scheduled
to take place May 26 at the Seaforth and
District Community Centres.
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