NEW - The Afghanistan War Stories Missing From the Canadian War Diary

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Oct 2, 2026 · 10m

Canadian Afghanistan veterans sometimes tell Dr. Andrew Burtch they were there but did nothing remarkable. He offers a way to hear what that modest account leaves out, and discover experiences that never reached the official record.

After a friendly fire incident wounded thirty Canadians, people had to move casualties over a mountainside. Andrew recounts a detail about that evacuation that still astonishes him. What looks like a brief entry in military history was lived second by second.

Years later, some veterans are ready to let their families into those experiences. Others look back with…