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Words from Afghanistan - Sgt Patrick Tower SMV (ITOW)

6/20/2013

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On the Reasons for Valour Awards in Afghanistan

Selected quotes from the book In Their Own Words.

Sergeant Tower received his decoration for his actions at the White School on 3 August 2006.

"When someone goes down, the next guy takes over. I feel that if I could I’d give a medal to every guy in my platoon that day….Everyone one of them did an amazing job that day and they all own a piece of that medal. They all contributed. I don’t’ see it so much as a medal for me as for all of 9 Platoon.

"A lot of people congratulate you on a medal. But for anyone to get awarded any sort of decoration, something really bad has to happen. If everything is going good, no one is getting a medal. When you read any of these citations, things were pretty much not going as planned. It’s always something going bad."


(In Their Own Words: Canadian Stories of Valour and Bravery from Afghanistan, 2001-2009. Canadian Defence Academy Press, Kingston, 2013. Page 155.)


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