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Photojournalist tells experience of
war in Afghanistan to CHSS students
Susan Hundertmark
Reliving the terrifying day April 22 when as a docu-
mentary filmmaker, he was part of a Canadian military
convoy in Afghanistan that was
attacked by insurgents - resulting in
the death of four soldiers - Richard
Fitoussi told his story to students at
/Central Huron Secondary School
Friday.
An internationally -known photo-
journalist and graduate of Central
Huron Secondary School, Fitoussi
flew home from Camodia for the
high school's Remembrance Day cer-
emony.
"I wish to send my deepest grati-
tude to the parents, children, wives
and siblings of those four fallen sol-
diers and wish to send them this
message. I am forever grateful for
their sacrifice. I am alive because
they are not," he told a packed gyna-
sium.
Fitoussi said the students should
not mourn the soldiers' deaths with
"tears of pity" but with "tears of hon-
, our for they died' doing -something
they believed in."
Beginning a "beautiful blue -skied
day" in a safe house in Gumbad,
Fitoussi said he had no idea he was
saying goodbye to his friend Lt.
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Richard Fitoussi
William Turner for the last time.
Fitoussi had made friends with Turner, who was
known as a den mother to the troops at the "Red Devil
Inns" the name soldiers used to describe their com-
pound at Gumbad.
Turner, whom Fitoussi had filmed the day before
handing out medicine to the locals, had a good relation-
ship with the elders of Gumbad village.
"From my perspective, he seemed to always be willing
to make the new guys feel welcome. This was doubly so
for me as even I, the outsider, had been taken under his
wing upon my arrival," he told the students.
In a convoy travelling 75 kilometres to Kandahar,
Fitoussi was in an armoured vehicle an hour into the
trip when he heard the "sickening sound" of an explo-
sion.
"It was deep and low, quite unlike the sound of gun-
fire or a mortar. At the moment of the blast a rush of
air escaped our vehicle, causing a vacuum that popped
my ears and stole my breath," he recalled.
He then heard machine gun fire, the convoy stopped
and the soldiers jumped ipto position.
While Fitoussi had no idea what was happening, he
turned on the camera to start recording sound.
Recalling the advice of a Globe and Mail photograph-
er, he got to work so he wouldn't be so terrified, feeding
ammunition cases and rocket launchers to the gunners
and first aid supplies out the back of the vehicle for the
troops.
He found out 20 minutes later that they had been
attacked by Taliban insurgents and that three soldiers
were dead, 15 metres ahead of his vehicle.
The fourth was in critical condition but died enroute
while being airlifted to hospital.
"I did not know Cpl. Randy Payne, nor did I know
Cpl. Matthew Dinning or Bombadier Myles Mansell. I
did however have a chance to see these men in action
the day before," he said.
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