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Alright usually i don't go for the whole, complain about your problems, thing but lately things are getting a tiny big rough. Just yesterday i got a call from my Leuitenant that i need a Photo ID card before i head of to the training centre for my 6 week course well you might say "well go out there and get it then." but there's just this teensy weensy problem... Im underaged and i'd need a parent consent to get a photo ID now that summers started my moms began to work away from home so far i havn't see her for a couple days now. With a father out of the picture she's the only parent around that i can get a consent from and with her away it's going to be a bit too hard. sure you might be thinking "Why not just call her and ask if she can come home?" well there's another problem with that because my mom will just reply with every other reply that she can't get away from work to come home and give me a consent, and then she sighs and says i'll try. to me that isn't a very good answer it just dampens my hopes of going to the training centre that i've been looking forward to doing for the past 9 months. I'm already thinking about what will happen if i get left behind, frick my captian should have warned me about the photo ID's a looooooong time ago. this corp of mine makes me so damn mad sometimes. I'm almost glad that i'll be leaving for another one, unless my mom can't get away from work in order to move us too... I already have a dreadful feeling that i might not go to the training camp, it'll take atleast 10 days to get my photo ID in the mail and i've got 22 more days till i leave for camp it's getta happen this week or there'll be no camp. On the bright side if i don't go then some CL aulternate will have the chance to go but i'll be held back a whole year in training which will stunt my training levels, promotions, everything! This whole thing makes me so mad i just want to cry but im too upset to do so.

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Right as some of you might know im in the RCAC and plan on joining the Canadian Reserve Forces, and well now that Canada bumbed the Afghan mission to 2011 theres a chance i might go. Now don't get me wrong i'd love to go to Afghanistan, but it's just im afraid of how people will look at me, im afraid of the thought that there will be people out there that will want to harm and kill me. Most of all I'm afraid i might not return, course the chances of me dying over there with the Canadian Forces are faily slim but that still doesn't mean i won't get hurt or well you know... Like i said im afraid of how people will look at me as a soldier here back home because as a tribute maker on youtube i've come across alot of good people, and alot of bad. The bad people or the Anti-war people amke the most obscene comments i have ever said i bet you about $1000 that they have NEVER even watched the full tribute video in there intire life. They don't realize that the soldiers that are over there, some of them are againced their will, that they were sent over there by a politions choice, it is not the soldiers choice to say that we should go to war, it is only their job. what if i just went over to where those haters work and discriminate them by their job say that everything is their fault? im sure they'd think differently. And if you're a hater, anti-war, or whatever reading this let me tell you, when you have the time just watch one, ONE tribute video on youtube or where ever and look at the pictures of the dead soldiers and look into their eyes, and think, what their families are going through, or if you have no sympathy for their family imagine what your family would be like if you died doing something you believed in. Many people think that the USA (i know im not in the USA) is in Iraq only for the oil, if they were in it for the oil then why the hell are they in Afghanistan as well? Afghanistan doesn't have any oil. Some Americans and other countries i might add, don't even know why there over there, they are over there in the first place on a Revenge mission for 9/11. Most revenge wars don't work very well. but anyway lets stray from my ramblings here. Back to my thoughts about going to afghanistan yes im worried but i think the will for me to help that nation and their people is even stronger then my worry. That is the thing i want most, is to help people, im not in it for the money gees if my mom can support a family of four on $8 an hour im sure i can squeak by on $10 at a fast food resteraunt. Yes i want to help those people, i want to train their army in order to defend themselves, i want them to stand up againced the taliban and beable to drive them out on their own. Yes it is true that at times we accidentally kill civilians and i hope that i will never have to come to that, but think about it logically. If a car was barraling towards your unit would you risk the lives of the people in your unit with a suicide car bomb, or will you try to save the 30 plus lives in your unit by stopping the car. The thing about the taliban that makes me sick is that they have stooped as low as recruiting 6-12 year olds and strapping bombs on their chests and telling them to go and hug the soldiers so they can blow them up... That though outrages me if you're a parent with a 6-16 year old how would you feel if your kid was told to do that? The taliban are growing weak i can tell that by the way they are using women and children to kill soldiers, the hardest thing for me about going over there is that you won't beable to tell from friend or foe. Im scared to die, to leave my family. But i must do what must be done i want to help with everything i got i want to help those civilians. I want to see the smile on those kids faces when they know that they are safe, that they will be alright. I will close up this blog post with, "The soldier above all prays for peace, because it is the soldier who carries the deepest scars and wounds of war." I don't beleive this is intirely true it is also the civilians that will carry the deepest scars and wounds of war as well, because they are caught in the middle of it with no way of protecting themselves. Cpl Dubois RCACC 3025 Service Batalion

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