Afghan vets honoured with art exhibits
Canadian and other coalition troops wounded during the war in Afghanistan are front and centre in two exhibitions currently showing in France and Canada.
In France, a combined exhibition of photographs and writings by a dozen wounded French veterans of the 20-year war opened on Oct. 18 and showed for 12 days at the Cercle National des Armées in Paris.
The photographs, accompanied by memories, insights and descriptions written by the troops who took the pictures, depict life on a typical deployment fraught with danger. “They experienced the insidious threat of a suicide bomber, of their armoured vehicle exploding [on] an IED,” said a release. “Unlike [some of] their brothers in arms, they have emerged alive from attacks.
“They left a part of [themselves] over there, far from their l...