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‘They took out 4 innocent people’: National Silver Cross mom reflects on son’s life
Nancy Payne, honored as national Silver Cross Mother, reflects on her son Randy Joseph Payne’s 2006 death in Afghanistan during the deadliest attack on Canadian Forces in four years.
- Earlier this month, Nancy Payne, Lansdowne, Ont., was named this year’s national Silver Cross Mother by the Royal Canadian Legion, and on Tuesday she will lay a wreath at the National War Memorial, Ottawa.
- Randy Joseph Payne was killed in action on April 22, 2006 when a roadside bomb struck their G-wagon returning to Kandahar Airfield after Brig.-Gen. David Fraser had left by helicopter.
- The Payne family has a long line of CAF service, with Randy's son now a combat engineer, and Nancy recalled Randy saying, `He loved what he was doing.`
- Randy was one of four soldiers killed in the explosion, the deadliest attack on Canadian Forces in four years, and Nancy Payne has laid a wreath at local Remembrance Day ceremonies every year since.
- Along with the wreath-laying, Nancy Payne has kept a full schedule in the national capital, Ottawa, meeting dignitaries and attending events as part of her Royal Canadian Legion appointment.
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'They took out 4 innocent people': National Silver Cross mom reflects on son's life
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