The Canadian flag felt heavy as I carried a fellow soldier's coffin. I still feel it 17 years later

Matthew Heneghan was a pallbearer for Cpl. Andrew James Eykelenboom, a Canadian medic who was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2006. That profound moment has stayed with Heneghan 17 years later, reminding him of all that was lost in that war.

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