Our Fallen Soldier Returns Home (Tpr Karine Blais, 12e Régiment Blindé du Canada)

DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2009-04-15 | (media advisory)

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Our Fallen Soldier Returns Home

LFCA MA 09-07 - April 15, 2009

OTTAWA – Our fallen soldier, Trooper Karine Blais, from 12e Régiment Blindé du Canada based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Quebec, will return home to Canada on Thursday, April 16, 2009.

Where: 8 Wing, Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ontario.
When: Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
What: At the wishes of the family, media will not be permitted on the tarmac.

Present to pay their respects will be Her Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk and other dignitaries.

Trooper Blais was killed and four others were injured when their armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device north of Kandahar City in the Shah Wali Kowt District. The incident occurred at approximately 5:00 p.m., Kandahar time, on April 13, 2009. Trooper Blais was a member of 12e Régiment Blindé du Canada based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Quebec, serving with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment Battle Group.

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Note to Editors/News Directors:
Interested media may contact Captain Mark Peebles, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton Public Affairs Officer, who can be reached at (613) 392-2811, ext. 2041, or at: peebles.m@forces.gc.ca

For general queries, please contact the Media Liaison Office at (866) 377-0811, or on weekends 613-792-2973. For flight information, please contact the Air Passenger Terminal at 1-800-487-1186

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[JudyinCanada]

Very sad. May another Canadian hero RIP.

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Trooper Karine Blais, 12e Régiment Blindé du Canada,
(12th Armoured Regiment), CFB Valcartier,
(serving with 2 Royal 22e Régiment Battle Group)

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[Chief Engineer]

They shall not grow old
As we who are left to grow old
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them

[fanfan]

Thank you for posting that, Chief Engineer.

[exg]

Welcome home, and Thank You.
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[Chief Engineer]

As someone who has walked the beaches of Normandy and marched in a great many Remembrance Day parades that is a verse I know by heart.I was a 20+ Legion member. Even living in the U.S. My poppy pin remains on my coat year round and for those not aware of it, the simply trick to keeping a poppy in place is to use either an eraser from a pencil or the back from a stud earring.