On Remembrance Day, our thoughts should also turn to the thousands of Canadians who served overseas with the RCAF's No. 1 Air Division as part of NATO. The tough years were endured mostly from the 1950s to the early 1960s.
Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a US warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region.
In his career as a search-and-rescue specialist, Warrant Officer Arnold Macauley had made more than 500 parachute jumps-but never in such grim conditions as just before midnight on Oct. 31, 1991.