A departure

I would like to wish good luck to all those Canadians who are currently in or making their way over to Afghanistan, bringing our contribution of soldiers to over 2000. Your service is appreciated by the folks here in Canada, and I'm sure it is especially appreciated by those you are helping. You are the best ambassadors of this country. To my friends who are going - see you when you get back.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiams, the great devotion and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1910