Tourney to raise money for repatriation memorial
A new golf tournament will help raise money for the Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial.
The Repatriation Memorial Golf Classic will be held Sept. 25 at the Roundel Glen Golf club at CFB Trenton.
The cost is $100 with registration starting at 8:30 a.m. A shotgun start has been scheduled for 10 a.m.
Organizer Wayne Hannah says 100 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to the memorial fund raising campaign.
Hannah, a firefighter with the Canadian Forces for the past 15 years, says wanted to do something to help honour the memory of not only Canadians soldiers but a number of close friends.
"Over the last two years the community of Quinte West has been developing a memorial that will be erected in Bain Park to honour those who serve and who have made that ultimate sacrifice for each and every one of us," says Hannah.
He enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1997 and transferred to the RCAF in 2005 to become a firefighter. The transfer took place just a short time before he was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan.
Hannah said when the memorial is complete it will contain the names of dozens of soldiers who were killed in action.
The cost of entering the tournament includes 18-holes of gold, a power cart, dinner and prizes. The will also be entertainment and a silent auction.
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CFB TRENTON – U.S. Army Sgt. Cindy Curtis had never seen a repatriation ceremony.
But Tuesday, Curtis, a member of the 861st Quartermaster Company based in Nashville, Tennessee, and nine of her parachute rigger colleagues, watched as the flag-draped casket of Bombardier Karl Manning come home.
For Curtis seeing hundreds of people standing along the fence along Highway 2 to pay their respect to the fallen soldier as well as news photographers covering the ceremony up close and personal on the tarmac was "more than an unfamiliar sight.
"We don't hear much about the repatriation of our fallen soldiers in the United States," she said, while keeping an eye on the C-17 Globemaster pulling up on the hot tarmac. "Unless you were serving with the man or woman who lost her or his life on mission, or are a family member, or a close friend ... People know about it, but locally. The local newspaper and TV network of the town or city where the fallen soldier was from will cover the ceremony and report it the next day, but they (media) don't publish any advance stories or anything as well documented as the work you guys do here today."
The body of the 31-year old gunner from Battery X, the 5e Regiment d'artillerie legere du Canada and Chicoutimi, Que., was found shortly after dawn last Friday by fellow soldiers at an austere forward operating base in the Horn of Panjwaii.
Manning was the 156th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan.
Neither hostile fire, nor foul play was suspected in Manning's death, which is under investigation.
Curtis said she took upon herself to attend Manning's repatriation ceremony.
"We are currently on training here in Trenton with the parachute school (Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre)," said Curtis, as she approached the CFB Trenton tarmac while accompanying members of the Canadian media. "We arrived on Sunday, the same day the news of Manning's death was announced, I believe. As a public affairs officer myself with my unit in Tennessee, I asked if I could attend the ceremony with members of the press in order to learn more about how Canadian Forces hold this particular kind of ceremonies.
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