Canada marks fifth anniversary of end of Afghanistan mission
OTTAWA — When the Sept. 11 terror attacks hit the World Trade Centre towers in 2001, Anita Cenerini says her son, Thomas Welsh, knew right away he would likely be shipped off to war.
He had joined the Canadian Forces just one month prior, so his mother tried to reassure him.
“I was afraid for him and I said, ‘You don’t have to go. You just joined. You can back out,'” she recalled.