Iraq safer than Northern Manitoba?

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It was for this good young man..
n my morning paper...
U.S. Marine Corporal Leonard Anderson did a 7 month tour in Iraq, was awarded a dozen medals, it says his unit was the first to storm the city of Fallujah. He is a native of The Pas here in Manitoba and was visiting friends and was scheduled to visit with school kids he had been corresponding with to give a talk.
He was stabbed twice in the back early Sunday morning while trying to defuse a situation outside a hotel bar started by a gang called the "Indian Posse". He was medevaced to Winnipeg with a punctured lung and kidney.
Anderson himself is aboriginal, holds dual citizenship and has been in the Marines for three years.
"In Fallujah, Anderson led several Marines to safety after their vehicle came under sniper attack. Anderson then exposed himself to the sniper to draw his fire and expose (the snipers) position"
His attacker has been arrested and faces four charges. Anderson is expected to spend a week here in hospital, and another month recovering.

The above has been cribbed from today's edition of the Winnipeg Sun.
 
I hope his attacker stays in jail for a long time.

Hope that Anderson makes a speedy recovery.
 
Totally OT but I'm really really curious and your post (and location :) ) just reminded me of that: I read somewhere that Manitoba is one incredibly miundane flat expanse of endless manure-sprayed fields - is that really the case ? Sort of like the Netherlands where the highest peak is way lower than the nearby hill directly in front of my window ?
 
Faramir
I am in southern Manitoba (about 12 miles from border), and east of here it is as flat as ... milk on a plate, and there are more than a few hog barns so your description is reasonable, but not totally accurate of course. My parents have two patches of land next to Riding Mountain Park, and while mountain might be a bit of a misnomer it is a wonderful enclave of several different and rare habitats left high and dry by the retreat of the glacier eons ago. Coyotes, elk, moose, bear, grouse, mountain lion were all seen by me on or near our farm as I was growing up. We also have an inland desert complete with high sand dunes, buzzards and skinks at Carberry. I worked in the north for a few years, where it is all deep lakes and pines and pike. Also some of the last pure original grasslands left in N.A. And the sunsets. Ahh the sunsets.
Sound like a homer don't I.
"...one incredibly mundane flat expanse of manure sprayed fields".. nope, thats Saskatchewan just west of us.
cheers
edited for dyslexic sense of direction and to add that I have been in the Netherlands, and the land east of me of me around Steinbach reminds me very much of what I remember of the land we traveled though. So flat you feel like you are in a huge shallow bowl. I also remember that horrible youth hostel in Amsterdam and Kronigsberg beer.
sorta
 
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