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‘She is the village’s guardian angel’: National Silver Cross Mother remembers daughter killed in Afghanistan
Drive through the small village of Les Méchins, Que., and there’s a monument you’re not likely to miss.
Right on the main road, at the base of a Canadian flag, lit up at night, there’s a statue of a young woman.
The people here knew her.
It’s that kind of place.
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It’s small enough that when Karine Blais was killed in Afghanistan, it was a loss for all of Les Méchins.
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“It was as though the war felt very close,” says Josée Simard, Karine’s mother.
“Someone from the village had left on a mission, and didn’t come back.“
Simard has been selected by the Canadian Legion as this year’s National Silver Cross Mother. On Remembrance Day, and for the next year, she will represent all mothers who lost sons or daughters in military service to the country.
Blais was killed April 13, 2009, on patrol north of Kandahar.
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