I haven't been blogging anywhere near as much as usual for quite a while now. And that's a problem for me on various levels.
Not the least of which is the fact that I still find stuff I want to blog about. And that stuff tends to pile up on my computer desk. Until, current events no longer being current, it gets dumped (with no small amount of guilt) into the recycle bin.
For example, the 100th anniversary of Canada's Navy. Halifax, being more or less a Navy town, it has special significance here.
But before I got my sorry butt around to commenting on that, the Canadian Navy experienced another significant first, this one much less happy.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Craig Blake was the 143rd member of the Canadian military to be killed in Afghanistan, but the first sailor. The navy clearance diver, who was based in Halifax, was sent to Afghanistan as an explosive ordnance disposal operator. And it was after disarming an improvised explosive device that he was, ironically enough, killed by an IED while walking back to camp.
Being based in Halifax, Petty Officer Blake returned here yesterday to have his ashes scattered in the Atlantic. The husband and father of two boys was only one week away from his 38th birthday.
But wait, before I could even get to that, yet another Canadian soldier was killed in Afghanistan. 24-year-old Pte. Kevin McKay. # 144.
Which makes me wonder ... is it better if I write about it? Or if I don't?
2 comments:
It's always better to write about it. To celebrate their lives, to honor their courage, and to document their sacrifice.
Thanks, Pogue.
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