Welsh was trained and deployed as part of Operation Athena in August 2003, where he served as a C9 gunner. Less than three months after he returned to Canada, he took his own life
OTTAWA — When the Sept. 11 terror attacks hit the World Trade Centre towers in 2001, Anita Cenerini says her son, Thomas Welsh, knew right away he would likely be shipped off to war.“I was afraid for him and I said, ‘You don’t have to go. You just joined. You can back out,”‘ she recalled.
This war took a physical toll on the dead and wounded and took a mental toll on many people left behind that may not appear wounded, but they are Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance, said the country is still trying to learn how best to care for those who were wounded — physically and emotionally — during the war in Afghanistan.“This war took a physical toll on the dead and wounded and took a mental toll on many people left behind that may not appear wounded, but they are.”
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