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Edmontonians rally for troops

Hundreds brave biting wind to cheer on wounded soldiers
home from Kandahar-


JIM MACDONALD
Canadian Press
EDMONTON -- An army medic whose legs were amputated
after his convoy was hit by a suicide bomber says the
first Edmonton rally for Canadian troops in Afghanistan
made him proud to be a soldier.
"Years ago we didn't have this support,"
Master Corporal Paul Franklin told more than 300 people
who stood for an hour in freezing wind yesterday. "
But now when you go on missions you don't even have to
think about how Canadians support us.
"We know. It's a given.".......
.........
Colonel Jon Vance said the images of yesterday's rally
would be viewed immediately by Canadians deployed
in Afghanistan and the reaction would be gratitude and
a firming of their resolve.

"You are telling your soldiers today that
Canada is worth fighting for, and for a soldier,
it just doesn't get any better than that,"

Col. Vance told the cheering crowd, many of them
wearing poppies or yellow ribbons.

"Your soldiers don't crave pity.
They don't want you to fear for them.
They need your love and unwavering support."

Several soldiers in camouflage uniforms stood among
the crowd, and at one point an elderly man shook hands
with about a dozen of them.
Trooper Justin D'Angelo, 24, later said he was delighted
when the man approached them.
"It gives you a warm feeling"
said Trooper D'Angelo, who is waiting to be deployed.
"You don't really know what people are thinking and
actions like that, it's great."
The rally outside City Hall is the first of what organizers
promise will be weekly demonstrations dubbed
Red Fridays, a name taken from similar rallies in the
United States.

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