John Cantwell

I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols __utside the wire_, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.