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Maybe even a lot crazy, a soldier by training and an amateur comedian in his spare time, a first rate prankster with a mischievous bag of tricks.
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"And I remember thinking, 'OK, I blew up. I can't believe it. Is this a f dream?' And then I was like, do I have all my limbs, because I couldn't move my left arm. So I felt for it with my right arm and it was still attached and then I looked to my right and I saw a leg lying there and I thought,[url=http://www.michaelkorshandbagsclearance.us@#$%&/]michael kors handbags[/url], 'Oh no.'
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"I knew right away it was Franckie," he says. "I can't explain why. I didn't know it was possible to have this sixth sense, like a mother knowing something is wrong with her child.
"But I also knew that Franckie was going to make it. I've been to multiple ramp ceremonies to bring our dead home and I couldn't imagine doing that for him, carrying his casket, going back to Canada for his funeral. Somehow I knew he would be OK."
And he is OK, if you discount the fact that he is a little bit nuts, a wiry veteran of our Afghan war with a wrecked right eye, a wicked scar across his throat,[url=http://www.mulberryhandbags-outlet.co.uk/]mulberry outlet[/url], a face full of titanium, a left hand that doesn't work like it once did and who knows how many more surgeries to look forward to.
He didn't die in that dusty bazaar. An American medic staunched the wound and another grabbed a souvenir from the scene the suicide bomber's shroud a macabre reminder of a near fatal scrape that Cpl. Dupr tucked into his backpack this past October when he and Master Cpl. Burcew and a group of wounded Canadian veterans headed to Nepal with a CBC documentary crew and the True Patriot Love Foundation to trek in the shadow of Mt. Everest and climb Island Peak, one of the Himalayan giant's smaller sisters. March to the Top airs Sunday on the documentary channel and Monday on CBC. Master Cpl. Burcew was one of several people who blogged about theexperiencefor the National Post as he was climbing.
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"I don't know if there is a heaven or a hell, but on that mountain I could look at that and I could think I'm still here," he says. "I'm on top of the world and you [flips the bird at the dead bomber, wherever he is] are not."
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