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CFB TRENTON, Ont. — Four grief-stricken families received their fallen loved ones today during a military ceremony to mark the return of this country’s latest casualties in Afghanistan.

Four flag-draped caskets were loaded into four black hearses on the tarmac of this eastern Ontario military base as fathers, mothers, wives and children took comfort in each other’s embraces.

Each casket was removed from a military airbus in turn and escorted by military pallbearers led by a padre as a piper played the stirring lament “Flowers of the Forest.”

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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