For your tomorrow

Description:

"What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve."--Publisher's description.

subjects: Biography,  Officers,  Biographies,  Officiers,  Afghan War, 2001-,  Canadian Participation,  Casualties,  Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001-,  Participation canadienne,  Pertes,  Armed Forces,  Battle casualties,  Military participation,  Canadian,  Afghanistankrieg,  Offizier,  Gefallener,  Familie,  Canada. Canadian Armed Forces,  Canada,  Canada. Forces armées canadiennes,  Afghan War, 2001-2021

People: Jeff Francis (1970-2007),  Trauer, ...,  Kaṇada

Places: Canada