Funeral service held in Saskatchewan for slain Canadian soldier

Published Wednesday September 3rd, 2008

THE CANADIAN PRESS

SPIRITWOOD, Sask. - People lined the streets of a Saskatchewan town to pay their respects before the funeral for a Canadian soldier who wanted to make Afghanistan a better place.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Stobbe

The casket of Cpl. Dustin Wasden is carried into the Bourdages Cameron Memorial Arena for his funeral in Spiritwood, Sask., on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Cpl. Wasden and two other Canadian soldiers died in Kandahar, Afghanistan on August 20.

Cpl. Dustin Wasden, 25, died Aug. 20 along with two other soldiers when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle while on patrol in the war-torn nation. The hockey arena in Wasden's hometown of Spiritwood was packed with mourners as a military honour guard carried the soldier's coffin inside for the service.

Members of Wasden's unit - the Edmonton-based 12 Field Squadron, 1 Combat Engineer Regiment - were on hand, along with RCMP officers dressed in red serge.

Wasden leaves behind a wife and five-year-old daughter.

His funeral comes the same day three more Canadian soldiers were killed and five others were injured in an attack on an armoured vehicle in Afghanistan.

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OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU, YOUR FELLOW SOLDIERS AND YOUR FAMILIES.
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

JOSEPH BONNEVIE, EX MILITARY MONCTON NB