Project Athena
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Project Athena: Share your story, geotag your journey, and help map the legacy of the Afghanistan conflict. Start contributing now!
💔 17 years ago today, March 20, 2009, during Operation Jaley, the largest joint US-Canadian 🇺🇸🇨🇦 operation since the Korean War, an IED ripped through our fighting patrol in Kandahar’s Zhari District. Master Corporal Scott Francis Vernelli (28) and Corporal Tyler Crooks (24) of November Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment were killed in action along with our Afghan interpreter. We were on a fighting patrol taking a long halt when the pressure release IED blast hit. I, along with four others were injured in this deadly blast of HME. The explosion aftermath and medevac was captured by a CBC reporter imbedded with our patrol. 🎥⬇️ Their courage, sacrifice, and names live on forever. Today on their anniversary we remember them. Lest We Forget 🫡🇨🇦 #AfghanistanVeterans #NeverForgotten
We've just uploaded a major batch of geotagged photographs from Operation Veritable to the Project '44 beta web map. What you're looking at when you scroll through this post are the raw images. But on the map, each one is pinned to the exact location it was taken, tagged with its date, unit, and even some with the names of the soldiers. Here are some things that stood out in the photos: The men of Le Régiment de Maisonneuve at Moyland Castle on the 22nd of February 1945. There's something quietly striking about watching soldiers relax in a Renaissance castle in the middle of a winter campaign: Pte. Gaghe drinking tea out front, Pte. Lefebure fixing comms wire along the castle wall. These the photos that these were real people in a very strange situation.
