'The least they could do': Veterans push Canada to award its first Victoria Cross

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https://i.cbc.ca/1.6646500.1668029926!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_460/canadian-victoria-cross.jpg A passionate debate over how to define military valour — and what a Canadian soldier must do to win the country’s highest battlefield honour — has been raging quietly this year among veterans and the halls of Parliament. At its centre is a growing sense of dismay among some former Canadian soldiers over the military’s refusal to recognize some acts of heroism in Afghanistan with the modern version of the Victoria Cross.


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