On that theme, this article from the Globe & Mail
What happens to the wounded when they come home?
On the long road to recovery
KATHERINE HARDING From Saturday's Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060826.wxsoldiers26/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
EDMONTON — While the country has stopped to mourn 27 young Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, the sacrifices of dozens more quietly continue at home, as they slowly recover from their battle wounds.
Edmonton has emerged as a key hub for treating the returning wounded: The University of Alberta and Glenrose Rehabilitation hospitals are becoming this country's version of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the U.S. military hospital that treats hundreds of soldiers.
A small army of military and civilian medical staff in Edmonton have had to come to terms with this new reality very quickly due to the jump in battlefield casualties since Canada's combat duties increased earlier this year.
Doctors say those who return on stretchers are also coming back with devastating head injuries and damaged or lost limbs -- wounds more severe than military medical staff have seen in previous conflicts. Modern body armour is saving the lives of soldiers who would have died in battles of yesteryear.
Only a few months ago, Private Brent Ginther was a 20-year-old small-town Alberta boy dodging bullets on the hot, dusty battlefields of Afghanistan.
Today, he is surrounded by wheelchairs, seniors playing shuffleboard and long days of physiotherapy as he recovers at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital.
His life was transformed forever on June 12, when those flying bullets finally caught up to the infantry soldier posted with the 1 Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Charlie Company.
He was shot in both thighs after his platoon tried to capture Taliban insurgents who were cornered behind a grape hut. He now uses a wheelchair.
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to 1PPCLI and the men and women of other Regiment's who served with their BG.
