Four Canadian Soldiers were killed by friendly fire last week in Afghanistan, when a US F-16 jet dropped a 500lb laser guided bomb on their unit involved in a live fire exercise with other US soldiers near Kandahar. Here Combat Training Centre Chief of staff Lt.-Col. Doug MacLean, third from right, and left of MacLean is Lt.-Col. Jim Simms, chief of staff for CFB Gagetown as they attended a memorial service for the fallen soldiers held at St. Mary's Chapel at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown near Fredericton, Monday April 22, 2002. Below Lt. Angelo Manzara who was also a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, speaks of two of the four soldiers that were his close friends.

Below, Major Denis Hotte prays next to a candle during the memorial service for the four Canadian soldiers. Each of the soldiers will be buried in their respective home towns with full Military honours this week.

The middle and bottom photographs ran on the Canadian Press wire service, and all three ran in the Daily Gleaner.

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