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OTTAWA—We are now in the midst of Remembrance Week, and most Canadians are wearing a poppy to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of Canada. It should also be a time for civilians to reflect on those veterans who returned home with either physical or mental wounds due to their experiences on foreign battlefields.
He first wrote a letter to then-defence deputy minister Jody Thomas on June 18, 2019, urging the department to urgently resolve the issue of compensation for the LCAs. On Remembrance Day that same year, the CBC's Murray Brewster broke the story of Mohammad Amin—last name withheld for privacy—who had served as an LCA with the military in Kandahar, and was subsequently denied medical treatment for his PTSD.
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