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Veterans’ Dignity Ceremony at the National War Memorial Was Anything but ‘Repugnant’

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Veterans’ Dignity Ceremony at the National War Memorial Was Anything but ‘Repugnant’
The National War Memorial in Ottawa in a file photo. Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times
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Corporal (Ret’d) Chris Deering is a combat-wounded veteran of Canada’s war in Afghanistan. During his tour in 2008, while traversing one of the more hostile areas in the south of the country, the Taliban targeted his Light Armoured Vehicle for an IED attack. When the bomb went off, the force of the explosion was so great that it threw his 18-ton vehicle a full 75-80 feet in the air and left a crater the full width of the two-lane road that was just as deep.

Tom Quiggin
Tom Quiggin
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(Ret’d) Captain Tom Quiggin (MA, CD) served in the war in Bosnia and Croatia. Following that, he worked for the Privy Council Office (Intelligence Assessment Secretariat) and was an intelligence contractor for the RCMP (Integrated National Security Enforcement Team) for over six years. He is a court expert in terrorism and was a senior fellow at Nanyang Technical University. His research interests focus on the roots of extremism in democratic societies.
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