Afghan Horror and the Death of Private Couture

Afghan Horror and the Death of Private Couture
By Simon(Simon) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can take while to develop. But it wasn't... because as the video in that post shows... the Canadian Armed Forces don't have nearly enough resources to deal with the magnitude of the problem.

Que. coroner examining death of soldier amputee
Updated Fri. Nov. 16 2007 7:38 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Quebec's coroner is investigating the death of a Canadian soldier who returned home an amputee last December from the battlefront in Afghanistan.

Pte. Frederic Couture of the Royal 22nd Regiment appears to have committed suicide earlier this week. He was found at his family home in Roxton Pond, Que., southeast of Montreal.

Couture was 21 when he was injured by a landmine while on patrol in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province in December 2006.

In media interviews, Couture put on a brave front, telling TVA network his morale was good despite the injury that required part of his leg be amputated.

"It's war over there," he said. "I was injured and that's part of the risk of my job."
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